Lords of the sea : a history of the Barbary corsairs
The escalation of piracy in the waters east and south of Somalia has led commentators to call the area the new Barbary, but the Somali pirates cannot compare to the three hundred years of terror supplied by the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa captured and enslaved more than a million Christians. Lords of the Sea relates the history of these pirates, examining their dramatic impact as the maritime vanguard of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1500s through their breaking from Ottoman contr
History
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781861899460, 9781861899071, 9781299191174, 1861899467, 1861899076, 1299191177
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Introduction: The Barbary legend
Vanguard of the Sultan, 1492-1580
Lords of the sea, 1580-1660
Facing the sea powers, 1660-1720
Decline, revival and extinction, 1720-1830
Conclusion: A new Barbary?
Glossary of place name changes
Chronology