Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Gillian Weiss

Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Gillian Weiss

408 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 cit...

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