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Author Weiss, Gillian Lee.

Title Captives and corsairs [electronic resource] : France and slavery in the early modern Mediterranean / Gillian Weiss.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 389 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Mediterranean slavery -- Salvation without the state -- Manumission and absolute monarchy -- Bombarding Barbary -- Emancipation in an age of enlightenment -- Liberation and empire from the Revolution to Napoleon -- Barbary slavery in black and white -- The conquest of Algiers.
Summary French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Slavery -- Africa, North -- History.
French -- Africa, North -- History.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Africa, North -- History.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- France -- History.
Pirates -- Africa, North -- History.
France -- Relations -- Africa, North.
Africa, North -- Relations -- France.
Africa, North -- History -- 1517-1882.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804770002 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804777841 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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