Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean [Hardcover]

Molly Greene (Author)

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (July 12 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691141975
ISBN-13: 978-0691141978
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 699 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #398,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12 in Books > Law > Specialties > Maritime
- #13 in Books > History > Europe > Malta
- #13 in Books > Professional & Technical > Law > Specialties > Maritime

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While Molly Greene has aimed this entertaining book primarily at the maritime historian (and she takes the word 'maritime' in the title very seriously), it is written in a style that would also appeal to the general reader of history. It adds substantially to our understanding of those who lived, worked and thieved their way around the Mediterranean Sea in the early modern period. -- Michael Clark, Northern Mariner

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A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an important but neglected sphere of the early modern maritime world, and upending the conventional view of the Mediterranean as a religious frontier where Christians and Muslims met to do battle.

Molly Greene investigates the conflicts between the Catholic pirates of Malta--the Knights of St. John--and their victims, the Greek merchants who traded in Mediterranean waters, and uses these conflicts as a window into an international maritime order that was much more ambiguous than has been previously thought. The Greeks, as Christian subjects to the Muslim Ottomans, were the very embodiment of this ambiguity. Much attention has been given to Muslim pirates such as the Barbary corsairs, with the focus on Muslim-on-Christian violence. Greene delves into the archives of Malta's pirate court--which theoretically offered redress to these Christian victims--to paint a considerably more complex picture and to show that pirates, far from being outside the law, were vital actors in the continuous negotiations of legality and illegality in the Mediterranean Sea.

Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants brings the Mediterranean and Catholic piracy into the broader context of early modern history, and sheds new light on commerce and the struggle for power in this volatile age.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Packed with History and Wonderful Imagery., Oct 24 2011

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This review is from: Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean (Hardcover)

Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Modern Mediterranean was well worth the read in every sense of the imagination and the learning. Molly Greene does her homework here and presents a fine study book for all of those who never knew this piece of World History. I loved this book and wish I would see more Authors like Molly Greene to take it on herself or himself to write about largely unknown totally fascinating History. 10 Stars for the effort. 10 Stars for the pure enjoyment.

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