The economy of ransoming in the early modern Mediterranean : A form of Cross-Cultural Trade Between Southern Europe and the Maghreb (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
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2014
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Kaiser, Wolfgang
Calfat, Guillaume
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Religion and Trade : Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 / Trivellato, Francesca; Halevi, Leor; Antunes, Cátia (ed.). - Oxford : Oxford Universtiy Press, 2014. - pp. 108-130. - ISBN 978-0-19-937918-7
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Drawing from diplomatic sources, commercial treatises, and legal documents, this chapter describes the ransoming of captives as an important economic sector of the early modern Mediterranean. It argues that, far from being an economy of booty and plunder that obstructed commercial exchanges, corsairing in the Mediterranean sustained a constant trade in captives that crossed religious, legal, and political boundaries. The official function of corsairing was to damage the enemy’s economic activities. But in practice, corsairing also contributed to intensify contacts between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish merchants in the western Mediterranean.
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KAISER, Wolfgang, Guillaume CALFAT, 2014. The economy of ransoming in the early modern Mediterranean : A form of Cross-Cultural Trade Between Southern Europe and the Maghreb (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries). In: TRIVELLATO, Francesca, ed., Leor HALEVI, ed., Cátia ANTUNES, ed.. Religion and Trade : Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900. Oxford:Oxford Universtiy Press, pp. 108-130. ISBN 978-0-19-937918-7. Available under: doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199379187.003.0004BibTex
@incollection{Kaiser2014econo-37111, year={2014}, doi={10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199379187.003.0004}, title={The economy of ransoming in the early modern Mediterranean : A form of Cross-Cultural Trade Between Southern Europe and the Maghreb (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)}, isbn={978-0-19-937918-7}, publisher={Oxford Universtiy Press}, address={Oxford}, booktitle={Religion and Trade : Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900}, pages={108--130}, editor={Trivellato, Francesca and Halevi, Leor and Antunes, Cátia}, author={Kaiser, Wolfgang and Calfat, Guillaume} }
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