The forgotten frontier
Subtitle: a history of the sixteenth century Ibero-African frontier
By: Andrew C. Hess.
Series: Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies ;; no. 10
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Africa, North -- Relations -- Spain.; Spain -- Relations -- Africa, North.; Africa, North -- History -- 1517-1882.; Spain -- History -- House of Austria, 1516-1700.; Western Mediterranean -- History.
Description: The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light of the social, economic, and political affairs at the frontiers between North Africa and the Iberian peninsula.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 257-265.
Includes index.