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Stanford University Press Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Name: Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Brand: Stanford University Press
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Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival materials, writings, and images produced by contemporaries, the book fundamentally revises our picture of France's emergence as a nation and a colonial power, presenting the Mediterranean as an essential vantage point for studying the rise of France. It reveals how efforts to liberate slaves from North Africa shaped France's perceptions of the Muslim world and of their own "Frenchness". From around 1550 to 1830, freeing these captives evolved from an expression of Christian charity to a method of state building and, eventually, to a rationale for imperial expansion. Captives and Corsairs thus advances new arguments about the fluid nature of slavery and firmly links captive redemption to state formation―and in turn to the still vital ideology of liberatory conquest.

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Brand: Stanford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 080477000X
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > France
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 March 2011
Listed Since: 10 December 2010

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