Catholic pirates and Greek merchants
Subtitle: a maritime history of the Mediterranean
By: Molly Greene.
Series: Princeton modern Greek studies
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780691141978
Subjects: Knights of Malta -- History; Navigation -- Mediterranean Sea -- History; Merchants -- Greece -- History; Pirates -- Mediterranean Sea -- History; International relations -- History; Mediterranean Sea -- History, Naval; Mediterranean Sea -- Commerce -- History; Mediterranean Sea Region -- Commerce -- History; Mediterranean Sea Region -- History, Naval; Mediterranean Sea Region -- Relations
Description: A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. This book shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an important but neglected sphere of the early modern maritime world, and upending the conventional view of the Mediterranean as a religious frontier where Christians and Muslims met to do battle -- from cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Subjects and sovereigns; title: The claims of religion; title: The age of piracy; title: The Ottoman Mediterranean; title: The pursuit of justice; title: At the Tribunale; title: The turn toward Rome.