Piracy and captivity in the Mediterranean, 1550-1810 / edited by Mario Klarer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trading identities: Balthasar Sturmer's Verzeichnis der Reise (1558) and the making of the European Barbary captivity narrative / Mario Klarer -- Unkind dealings: English captivity narratives, commercial transformation, and the economy of unfree labor in the early modern period / Daniel Vitkus -- Ambivalences of recognition: the position of the Barbary corsairs in early modern international law and international politics / Walter Rech -- "Free, unfree, captive, slave": Ant�onio de Saldanha, a Late sixteenth-century captive in Marrakesh / Peter Mark -- "Renegades": converts to Islam in American Barbary captivity narratives of the 1790s / Anna Diamantouli -- Identity crises of homecomers from the Barbary coast / Robert Spindler -- "Arab speculators": states and ransom slavery in the Western Sahara / Christine E. Sears -- Michael Heberer: a prisoner in the Ottoman Navy / Robert Rebitsch -- Piracy, diplomacy, and cultural circulations in the Mediterranean / Khalid Bekkaoui -- A comparison of confraternity models in the "redemption of slaves" in Europe: The Broederschap der alderheylighste Dryvuldigheyt of Brugge/Bruges and the Scuola della Santissima Trinit�a of Venice / Andrea Pelizza -- A huguenot captive in Uthman Dey's court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and its author / Gillian Weiss -- Khayr al-Din Barbarossa: clashing portraits of a Corsair-King / Diana de Armas Wilson -- Two Arabic accounts of captivity in Malta: texts and contexts / Nabil Matar.

"Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean exlores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Divided into four parts and offering a variety of both national and cultural vantage points, Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean addresses both the background from which captivity narratives were born and the narratives themselves. It is essential reading for scholars and students of early modem slavery and piracy"-- Provided by publisher.