Ebook: Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery
Author: Matar Nabil
- Tags: Africa North -- History -- 1517-1882. Africa North -- Relations -- Great Britain. Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth 1558-1603. Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts 1603-1714. Great Britain -- Relations -- Africa North. Great Britain -- Relations -- Middle East. Indians -- First contact with Europeans. Islamic civilization -- Foreign public opinion
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the ""Barbary Corsairs"" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in Moroccan or Tunisian Read more...
Abstract: During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the ""Barbary Corsairs"" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in Moroccan or Tunisian harbor towns, joined the international community of pirates in Mediterranean and Atlantic outposts, served in Algerian households and ships, and endured captivity from Salee to Al