A pirate doesn't ask for permission - he takes.When I see the delicate human female collared and enslaved by the smuggler I'm about to swindle, I do what any ma

French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.

In The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives—and, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algi

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern perio

In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons