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Author : Alberto Tenenti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Piracy and the Decline of Venice, 1580-1615 written by Alberto Tenenti and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Travers
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752488279
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Pirates: A History written by Tim Travers and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories of piracy start with the Caribbean in the 1500s and move on to the 'golden age' from the 1660s to the 1720s, with chapters on the Barbary corsairs, Chinese piracy and a brief look at modern piracy. These areas cannot be overlooked, but Pirates: A History is a comprehensive history of piracy, starting with the ancient and classical periods, then shifting to the Middle Ages and the Mediterranean, before treating the more traditional areas of the Caribbean, the 'golden age' of piracy in the west, the Barbary corsairs, Chinese and Eastern piracy, and finally modern piracy.
Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019975263X
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Great Sea written by David Abulafia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters-sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims-who have crossed and re-crossed it. Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all a history of human interaction. Interweaving major political and naval developments with the ebb and flow of trade, Abulafia explores how commercial competition in the Mediterranean created both rivalries and partnerships, with merchants acting as intermediaries between cultures, trading goods that were as exotic on one side of the sea as they were commonplace on the other. He stresses the remarkable ability of Mediterranean cultures to uphold the civilizing ideal of convivencia, "living together." Now available in paperback, The Great Sea is the definitive account of perhaps the most vibrant theater of human interaction in history.
Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514835
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Business of War written by David Parrott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state.
Author : Peter Jordan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136488243
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte written by Peter Jordan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant and original new study of a key dramatic form Author is both an historian and practitioner of the craft There are few up-to-date case studies of Commedia available in English
Author : John C Appleby
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075247586X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Under the Bloody Flag written by John C Appleby and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Black Barty terrorised the Caribbean, the seas around the British Isles swarmed with pirates. Thousands of men turned to piracy at sea, often as a makeshift strategy of survival. Piracy was a business, not a way of life. Although the young Francis Drake became the most famous pirate of the period, scores of little-known pirate leaders operated during this time, acquiring mixed reputations on land and at sea. Captain Henry Strange ways earned notoriety for his attacks on French shipping in the Channel and the Irish Sea, selling booty ashore in south-west England and Wales. John Callice, and his associates, sailed in consort with others, including another arch-pirate, Robert Hicks, plundering French, Spanish, Danish and Scottish shipping, in voyages that ranged from Scotland to Spain. The first British pirates led erratic careers, but their roving in local waters paved the way for the more aggressive and ambitious deep-sea piracy in the Caribbean.
Author : L. McJannet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119824
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds written by L. McJannet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.
Author : Géza Dávid
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004157042
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Ransom Slavery Along the Ottoman Borders written by Géza Dávid and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is an ambitious attempt to give a comprehensive picture of trade in captives along the European borders of the Ottoman Empire, especially in Central Europe. It brings together a great deal of so far unpublished archival material and thus integrates a new area into the research.
Author : I.A.A. Thompson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040237738
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book War and Society in Habsburg Spain written by I.A.A. Thompson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical study of war in the Spain of Philip II forms the starting point for the articles in this volume. They approach this not so much from a military angle, but as a problem of organization, procurement and finance. In a sense, the articles represent an assessment of the effectiveness of the Spanish government and so, given the apparent precocity of government growth in 16th-century Spain, they can also be seen as a critical commentary on the operational capabilities of the early-modern absolutist state. Six of the essays here focus on the Spanish Armada, in terms of its political and military objectives, but demonstrating how these were conditioned by basic systems limitations, not least in the procurement of suitable cannon. In the final articles Dr Thompson turns to the impact of war and its financing on the social structure, bearing in particular on the definition of nobility (and its sale), and on local democracy, and making full use, here as elsewhere, of the relatively unexplored local sources. Two of the papers here appear for the first time in English, whilst a third has been newly prepared for this volume. L’étude historique de la guerre sous Philippe II, roi d’Espagne, est à la base des articles contenus dans le présent recueil. Ceci est abordé non tant sous l’angle militaire, mais comme un problème d’organisation, d’acquisition de matériel et de financement. En un certain sens, ces documents représentent une évaluation de l’efficacité du gouvernement espagnol et peuvent par conséquent, étant donnée l’apparente précocité de la croissance gouvernementale en Espagne au 16 siècle, être considérés comme un commentaire critique quant aux capacités opérationnelles de l’Etat absolu proto-moderne. Une demi douzaine des essais font l’examen de l’Armada espagnole, en terme d’objectifs politiques et militaires, tout en démontrant comment ces derniers étaient conditionnés par des contraintes structurales,
Author : Gillian Weiss
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080477000X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Captives and Corsairs written by Gillian Weiss and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.
Author : Nadav Kashtan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136336516
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Seafaring and the Jews written by Nadav Kashtan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection studies Jewish involvement in seafaring from Biblical, through Greco-Roman, Medieval and Early Modern periods to the present. This broad historical perspective allows a closer look at various attitudes of Jews to maritime activities, especially as shipowners and traders in the Mediterranean regions.
Author : Robert C. Davis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886256
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal written by Robert C. Davis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. This is the social history of the men and women who helped maintain not only the city's dominion over the sea but also its stability and peace. Drawing on a variety of documents that include nearly a thousand petitions from the shipbuilders to the Venetian governments as well as on parish records, inventories, and wills, Robert C. Davis offers a vivid and compelling account of these early modern workers. He explores their mentality and describes their private and public worlds (which in some ways, he argues, prefigured the factories and company towns of a later era). He uncovers the far-reaching social and cultural role played by women in this industrial community. He shows how the Venetian government formed its shipbuilders into a militia to maintain public order. And he describes the often colorful ways in which Venetians dealt with the tensions that role provoked—including officially sanctioned community fistfights on the city's bridges. The recent decision by the Italian government to return the Venetian Arsenal to civilian control has sparked renewed interest in the subject among historians. Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal offers new evidence on the ways in which large, state-run manufacturing operations furthered the industrialization process, as well as on the extent of workers' influence on the social dynamics of the early modern European city.
Author : Michael J. K. Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443884065
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book City of Empires written by Michael J. K. Walsh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its undoubted importance, there has never been a volume dedicated entirely to studies of the historic city of Famagusta in the years which followed the siege of 1571. City of Empires: Ottoman and British Famagusta takes an important first step in redressing this imbalance. The four centuries which followed the conflict, as the contributions gathered here demonstrate, are rich research seams for scholars of history, urban design, photography, art history, literature, drama, military history and the post-war mandates. City of Empires also places emphasis on the tangible heritage of Famagusta – twice listed as endangered by World Monuments Fund and now the recipient of an increasing number of international efforts to protect it.
Author : Godfrey Goodwin
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863567819
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)
Download or read book The Janissaries written by Godfrey Goodwin and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They set up semi-independent states along the North African coast and even fought at sea. Their political power was such that even sultans trembled. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? These are some of the questions which this book attempts to answer. It is the story of extraordinary personalities in both victory and defeat. 'An incredible book ... a tour de force' Middle East International 'Well written and lucid.' Muslim World Books Review 'Goodwin has done so much in his scholarly career to introduce a wide audience to Ottoman culture.' Financial Times
Author : Alex Chase-Levenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485545
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Yellow Flag written by Alex Chase-Levenson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system to show how fear of disease drew Britain into a Continental biopolity.
Author : Nabil Matar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136060189
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book In the Lands of the Christians written by Nabil Matar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Lands of the Christians presents original translations from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe and America in the seventeenth century. These essays contain careful descriptions of the regions, societies, customs, and religions these intrepid travelers encountered in their journeys. Here you will find the complete travel narrative of the first Arab to visit South and Central America in 1688, the first English translation of the ambassadorial report by Mohammad bin Abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani who traveled through Spain in 1690, translations of letters by the Morrocan ambassador to France describing his relationship with his hosts and his impressions of the land, and Morisco author Ahmad bin Qasim's account of his voyage from Holland to France in 1610.
Author : Nükhet Varlik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013380
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World written by Nükhet Varlik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.
