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Captives and corsairs : France and slavery in the early modern Mediterranean
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Title
Captives and corsairs : France and slavery in the early modern Mediterranean / Gillian Weiss.
ISBN
9780804770002 (cloth : alk. paper)
080477000X (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xi, 389 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Summary
French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 10, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Mediterranean slavery
Salvation without the state
Manumission and absolute monarchy
Bombarding Barbary
Emancipation in an age of enlightenment
Liberation and empire from the Revolution to Napoleon
North African servitude in black and white
The conquest of Algiers.
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