Britain and Barbary, 1589-1689
By: Nabil Matar.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Africa, North -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Africa, North; Great Britain -- Civilization -- African influences; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1558-1603; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1603-1688
Description: "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 Drawing on published and unpublished literary, commercial, and epistolary sources, he situates British maritime activity and national politics, especially in relation to the Civil War, within the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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.