Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption write by Daniel J. Vitkus. This book was released on 2001. Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At last available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales describe combat at sea, extraordinary escapes, and religious conversion, but they also illustrate the power, prosperity, and piety of Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean.
Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean
Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean write by Mario Klarer. This book was released on 2018-10-10. Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans by North African pirates, as well as of North Africans by European forces, turning the Barbary Coast into the nemesis of any who went to sea. Through a variety of specifically selected narrative case studies, this book displays the blend of both authentic eye witness accounts and literary fictions that emerged against the backdrop of the tumultuous Mediterranean Sea. A wide range of other primary sources, from letters to ransom lists and newspaper articles to scientific texts, highlights the impact of piracy and captivity across key European regions, including France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, and Britain, as well as the United States and North Africa. Divided into four parts and offering a variety of national and cultural vantage points, Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean addresses both the background from which captivity narratives were born and the narratives themselves. It is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern slavery and piracy.
Early Modern Trauma
Early Modern Trauma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Modern Trauma write by Erin Peters. This book was released on 2021-08. Early Modern Trauma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection explores what trauma—seen through an analytical lens—can reveal about the early modern period and, conversely, what conceptualizations of psychological trauma from the period can tell us about trauma theory itself.
Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination
Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination write by Srividhya Swaminathan. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.
Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy
Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy write by Alexandra Ganser. This book was released on 2020-08-11. Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.
