BRITAIN AND BARBARY, 1589-1689 - Softcover

Matar, Nabil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813030765 ISBN 13: 9780813030760

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2005

Synopsis

Matar examines the influence of Mediterranean piracy and diplomacy on early modern British history and identity. Drawing on published and unpublished literary, commercial, and epistolary sources, he situates British maritime activity and national politics, especially in relation to the Civil War, within the international context of Anglo-Magharibi encounters. Before there was the British encounter with America, there was the much more complex and destabilizing encounter with Islam in North Africa.

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Review:

This important and fascinating study of early modern England's relationship to North Africa by the foremost expert on the topic is magisterial in its reach and groundbreaking in the implications it holds for seventeenth-century English culture and political history."--Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami

About the Author:

Nabil Matar is professor of English and chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at the Florida Institute of Technology. This book is the third and final installment in his trilogy that includes Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 and Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0813030765
• ISBN 13: 9780813030760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260