![]() ![]() For anyone interested in the subject, engagingly written and a mine of information. Theirs was a brutal world, but then so was the world of the Caribbean pirates. In the name of Islam, they spread terror not only in the Mediterranean, but along the coasts of Western Europe, even as far north as Iceland, selling their captives in the slave markets of North Africa. Gratis frakt inom Sverige över 199 kr för privatpersoner. There is an obvious comparison with modern state-sponsored terrorism, especially when we learn that corsairs were sometimes spoken of as pursuing a sea jihad. ISBN 9780099523864 Pirates Of Barbary Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean av Adrian Tinniswood Häftad Engelska, 132 Köp Spara som favorit Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. They were privateers operating under licence. ![]() Strictly speaking, these men were not pirates at all. Yet another, of equal notoriety with Ward, was Simon Danseker, the Dutchman. John Ward, one of the most notorious, began life as a Kentish fisherman another, Sir Francis Verney, was an English gentleman. Yet they deserve to be, for a high proportion were European renegades. And – dare I say it – the Johnny Depps? The Corsairs of the Barbary Coast are much less well known. Since that region was a hub of international commerce, pirates had the economies of the West by the throat, he said, suggesting that piracy ultimately led to toppling the enormously powerful Venetian republic. ![]() Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th Century MediterraneanĮveryone knows about the pirates of the Caribbean, the Morgans and the Kidds. Historian Adrian Tinniswoodspoke about a period in the 17th century when pirates ruled the Barbary Coast of Africa. ![]()
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