British captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760

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Label

British captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760

Statement of responsibility

by Nabil Matar

Creator

• Matar, N. I., (Nabil I.), 1949-

Subject

• British -- Mediterranean Region -- History
• Captivity -- Africa, North -- History
• Captivity -- Mediterranean Region -- History
• Captivity -- Political aspects | History
• British -- Africa, North -- History
• Piracy -- Africa, North -- History
• Piracy -- Atlantic Ocean -- History
• Piracy -- Mediterranean Region -- History
• World politics -- To 1900
• Mediterranean Region -- History -- 1517-1789

Language

eng

Summary

"British Captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760 provides the first study of British captives in the North African Atlantic and Mediterranean, from the reign of Elizabeth I to George II. Based on extensive archival research in the United Kingdom, Nabil Matar furnishes the names of all captives while examining the problems that historians face in determining the numbers of early modern Britons in captivity. Matar also describes the roles which the monarchy, parliament, trading companies, and churches played (or did not play) in ransoming captives. He questions the emphasis on religious polarization in piracy and shows how much financial constraints, royal indifference, and corruption delayed the return of captives. As rivarly between Britain and France from 1688 on dominated the western Mediterranean and Atlantic, Matar concludes by showing how captives became the casus belli that justified European expansion"--

Assigning source

Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

354.1540892101821

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830,

Series volume

volume 28