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Author Panzac, Daniel.

Title Barbary Corsairs : the end of a legend, 1800-1820 / by Daniel Panzac ; translated from the French by Victoria Hobson and completed by John E. Hawkes.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 352 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 29
Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 29.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-345) and index.
Contents List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter One: The Bases of Privateering; Chapter Two: Of Ships and Men; Chapter Three: The Corsair Campaigns; Chapter Four: Privateering and the Economy; Chapter Five: The Maghreb's Maritime Trade at the End of the Eighteenth Century; Chapter Six: From Privateering to Shipping; Chapter Seven: The Commercial Fleets of the Maghreb; Chapter Eight: The Maghrebi Merchants and their Trade; Chapter Nine: The Western Counter; Chapter Ten: The Maghreb Faces up to its Problems; Epilogue; Appendix; Sources; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Ships.
Summary This book deals with three main points of the History of the Barbary corsairs : a renewed presentation of privateering, the original and unknown attempt of conversion of the privateers to seaborne trade, their failure and elimination from the Mediterranean after 1816.
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Chronological Term 1517-1882
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Corsaires barbaresques. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004048150
Other Form: Print version: Panzac, Daniel. Corsaires barbaresques. English. Barbary Corsairs. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005 9789004125940 (DLC) 2004040774 (OCoLC)54073847
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