The Mediterranean in the Seventeenth Century
Author | : Minna Rozen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788899487294 |
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Author | : Minna Rozen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788899487294 |
Author | : Adrian Tinniswood |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101445319 |
The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam. It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone-if not for today's frightening headlines of robbery and kidnapping on the high seas. Pirates have existed since the invention of commerce itself, but they reached the zenith of their power during the 1600s, when the Mediterranean was the crossroads of the world and pirates were the scourge of Europe and the glory of Islam. They attacked ships, enslaved crews, plundered cargoes, enraged governments, and swayed empires, wreaking havoc from Gibraltar to the Holy Land and beyond. Historian and author Adrian Tinniswood brings alive this dynamic chapter in history, where clashes between pirates of the East-Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli-and governments of the West-England, France, Spain, and Venice-grew increasingly intense and dangerous. In vivid detail, Tinniswood recounts the brutal struggles, glorious triumphs, and enduring personalities of the pirates of the Barbary Coast, and how their maneuverings between the Muslim empires and Christian Europe shed light on the religious and moral battles that still rage today. As Tinniswood notes in Pirates of Barbary, "Pirates are history." In this fascinating and entertaining book, he reveals that the history of piracy is also the history that shaped our modern world.
Author | : Carlo M. Cipolla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Money |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stanley Walter Croucher Pack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Mediterranean Region |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carlo Maria Cipolla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carlo M. Cipolla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dr Brandon Marriott |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2015-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472435842 |
In 1644 the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe and the Ottoman Empire fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of millenarian expectation, culminating in the claims of Sabbatai Sevi to be the Jewish messiah. By situating this transmission in a historical context stretching back to 1492, this book reveals the importance of early-modern crises, diasporas and newsgathering networks in generating eschatological constructs and transforming them through a process of intercultural dissemination into complex new hybrid religious conceptions and identities.
Author | : Fernand Braudel |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 2023-07-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520400658 |
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.
Author | : S. W. C. Pack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521580311 |
This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building its future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. In the seventeenth century the Mediterranean was the largest market for the colonial products which were exported by English merchants, as well as being a source of raw materials which were indispensable for the growing and increasingly aggressive domestic textile industry. The new free port of Livorno became the linchpin of English trade with the Mediterranean and, together with ports in southern Italy, formed part of a system which enabled the English merchant fleet to take control of the region's trade from the Italians. In her extensive use of English and Italian archival sources, the author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world. In doing so she demonstrates some of the causes of Italy's decline and its subsequent relegation as a dominant force in world trade.