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Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery
Nabil Matar
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Description for Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery
Paperback. Presents data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. This book provides a unique direction in the study of England's geographic imagination. It illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any depiction of English history. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 1FB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBJF1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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 Alexandria and from Fez to Mocha. In Turks, Moors, ... Read more
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 Alexandria and from Fez to Mocha. In Turks, Moors, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
403g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231110150
SKU
V9780231110150
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Ref
99-1
About Nabil Matar
Nabil Matar is a professor of English and the department head at the Florida Institute of Technology. He is the author of Islam for Beginners, Peter Sterry: Select Writings, and Islam in Britain: 1558-1685.
Reviews for Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery
A valuable contribution to the study of the rise of Orientalism and colonialism... perceptive and elegantly written. Arab Studies Journal An important but neglected topic. Matar has done early modern scholarship an important service. Sixteenth Century Journal Worth [its] weight in gold... Matar's work adds to the discourse of both orientalism and post-colonialism by providing essential detailed historical analysis of ... Read more