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Online Ressource (xvi, 355 pages)
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ISBN:
9781503603929
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150360392X
Content:
This text offers a comprehensive examination of the shape and impact of piracy in the eastern half of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire's administrative, legal, and diplomatic response
Content:
"The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century. Nowhere was more inviting to pirates than the Ottoman-dominated eastern Mediterranean. In this bustling maritime ecosystem, weak imperial defenses and permissive politics made piracy possible, while robust trade made it profitable. By 1700, the limits of the Ottoman Mediterranean were defined not by Ottoman territorial sovereignty or naval supremacy, but by the reach of imperial law, which had been indelibly shaped by the challenge of piracy. [This book examines] Mediterranean piracy from the Ottoman perspective, focusing on the administrators and diplomats, jurists and victims who had to contend most with maritime violence. Pirates churned up a sea of paper in their wake: letters, petitions, court documents, legal opinions, ambassadorial reports, travel accounts, captivity narratives, and vast numbers of decrees attest to their impact on lives and livelihoods. [The author] plumbs the depths of these uncharted, frequently uncatalogued waters, revealing how piracy shaped both the Ottoman legal space and the contours of the Mediterranean world."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-337) and index. - Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 15, 2019)
Additional Edition:
9781503603929
Additional Edition:
150360392X
Additional Edition:
9781503602526
Additional Edition:
1503602524
Additional Edition:
9781503602526
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. White, Joshua M., 1981 - Piracy and law in the Ottoman Mediterranean Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503602526
Additional Edition:
1503602524
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
Mittelmeer
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Kaperei
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Seeräuberei
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Geschichte 1570-1835
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