7151480Corsairs and Captives: Narratives from the Age of the Barbary Pirateshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/corsairs-and-captives--narratives-from-the-age-of-the-barbary-pirates-9781036106096/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6697301/image.jpg?v=638691072667900000246320MXNPen and SwordInStock/Ebooks/Explores the complex human narratives of Barbary corsairs from the 16th to 19th centuries, revealing the intricacies of conflict, faith, and personal struggles through primary-source accounts.From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing enormous amounts of booty and tens of thousands of captives, hauling them back to the slave markets in their home ports and auctioning them off to the highest bidder.The conflict between these Barbary corsairs and Europe was military, but not just that; religious, but not just that; social and economic, but not just that either. Above all, it was a human conflict, with all the confusion, blurred lines, and inherent messiness of such things, and the narratives it generated were more complicated than simple swashbuckling pirate tales.Corsairs & Captives presents a collection of these narratives, all based directly on primary-source documents, a number of which are translated into English for the first time. They include biographies of four renegade corsair captains (Europeans who converted to Islam and became corsairs), descriptions of sea battles by those who were there, accounts of ransomed captives, the report of a French Trinitarian friar who led a ransoming expedition to Algiers, even the transcript of a trial held by the Canary Islands chapter of the (in)famous Spanish Inquisition.These narratives bring to life a world much rougher than our own but no less complicated, in which people with the ordinary human fears and aspirations we are familiar with today struggled to endure. It is not the world most people expect when they think of Barbary corsairs. It is more interesting than that....6813844Corsairs and Captives: Narratives from the Age of the Barbary Pirates246320https://www.gandhi.com.mx/corsairs-and-captives--narratives-from-the-age-of-the-barbary-pirates-9781036106096/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6697301/image.jpg?v=638691072667900000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781036106096_W3siaWQiOiI0NTRlYmI2Yy0xYzI1LTQ4NWQtODI3My02MjFmZjNjMzQ1ZTYiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMyMCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjc0LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI0NiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDNUMDc6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781036106096_Explores the complex human narratives of Barbary corsairs from the 16th to 19th centuries, revealing the intricacies of conflict, faith, and personal struggles through primary-source accounts.From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing enormous amounts of booty and tens of thousands of captives, hauling them back to the slave markets in their home ports and auctioning them off to the highest bidder.The conflict between these Barbary corsairs and Europe was military, but not just that; religious, but not just that; social and economic, but not just that either. Above all, it was a human conflict, with all the confusion, blurred lines, and inherent messiness of such things, and the narratives it generated were more complicated than simple swashbuckling pirate tales.Corsairs & Captives presents a collection of these narratives, all based directly on primary-source documents, a number of which are translated into English for the first time. They include biographies of four renegade corsair captains (Europeans who converted to Islam and became corsairs), descriptions of sea battles by those who were there, accounts of ransomed captives, the report of a French Trinitarian friar who led a ransoming expedition to Algiers, even the transcript of a trial held by the Canary Islands chapter of the (in)famous Spanish Inquisition.These narratives bring to life a world much rougher than our own but no less complicated, in which people with the ordinary human fears and aspirations we are familiar with today struggled to endure. It is not the world most people expect when they think of Barbary corsairs. It is more interesting than that....9781036106096_Pen and Swordlibro_electonico_9781036106096_9781036106096Adam NicholsInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/casematepublishers-epub-b8459b81-298d-45df-bce6-1e730e0187f6.epub2024-11-30T00:00:00+00:00Pen and Sword