Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index
The Moor on the Elizabethan Stage -- "Imperialism," Captivity and the Civil Wars -- Barbary and British Women -- Moors in British Captivity -- From Tangier to Algiers -- Appendix 1. "AN ACT for the releife of the Captives taken by Turkish Moorish and other Pirates and to prevent he taking of others in time to come" -- Appendix 2. The Captivity Narrative of John Whitehead -- Appendix 3. "A Voyage into the Mediterranean Seas."
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"Nabil 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 Drawing on published and unpublished literary, commercial, and epistolary sources, he situates British maritime activity and national politics, especially in relation to the Civil War, within the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."--BOOK JACKET.