Captives and corsairs [electronic resource] : France and slavery in the early modern Mediterranean / Gillian Weiss.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.Description: xi, 389 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.3/620961 22
LOC classification:
  • HT1345 .W45 2011eb
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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 -- Barbary slavery in black and white -- The conquest of Algiers.
Summary: French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.
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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 -- Barbary slavery in black and white -- The conquest of Algiers.

French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.

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