Title: The forgotten frontier
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.
Subjects: History, Relations, Spain, history, Spain, relations, foreign countries, Africa, north, history
Places: North Africa, Spain, Western Mediterranean
Time periods: 1517-1882, House of Austria, 1516-1700