Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean
Title | Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean PDF eBook |
Author | Leonidas Mylonakis |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2021-07-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0755606701 |
Did British, French and Russian gunboats pacify the notoriously corsair-infested waters of the Eastern Mediterranean? This book charts the changing rates and nature of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century. Using Ottoman, Greek and other archival sources, it shows that far from ending with the introduction European powers to the region, piracy continued unabated. The book shows that political reforms and changes in the regional economy caused by the accelerated integration of the Mediterranean into the expanding global economy during the third quarter of the century played a large role in ongoing piracy. It also considers imperial power struggles, ecological phenomena, shifting maritime trade routes, revisions in international maritime law, and changes in the regional and world economy to explain the fluctuations in violence at sea.
Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Title | Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua M. White |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2017-11-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 150360392X |
The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century. Nowhere was more inviting to pirates than the Ottoman-dominated eastern Mediterranean. In this bustling maritime ecosystem, weak imperial defenses and permissive politics made piracy possible, while robust trade made it profitable. By 1700, the limits of the Ottoman Mediterranean were defined not by Ottoman territorial sovereignty or naval supremacy, but by the reach of imperial law, which had been indelibly shaped by the challenge of piracy. Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean is the first book to examine Mediterranean piracy from the Ottoman perspective, focusing on the administrators and diplomats, jurists and victims who had to contend most with maritime violence. Pirates churned up a sea of paper in their wake: letters, petitions, court documents, legal opinions, ambassadorial reports, travel accounts, captivity narratives, and vast numbers of decrees attest to their impact on lives and livelihoods. Joshua M. White plumbs the depths of these uncharted, frequently uncatalogued waters, revealing how piracy shaped both the Ottoman legal space and the contours of the Mediterranean world.
Piracy in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean during the later Middle Ages (14th-15th centuries)
Title | Piracy in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean during the later Middle Ages (14th-15th centuries) PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Coureas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Pirates |
ISBN |
Ancient Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean
Title | Ancient Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean PDF eBook |
Author | H. A. Ormerod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, Fifteenth-nineteenth Centuries
Title | Corsairs and Pirates in the Eastern Mediterranean, Fifteenth-nineteenth Centuries PDF eBook |
Author | Tzelina Charlautē |
Publisher | |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Mediterranean Sea |
ISBN | 9789608779259 |
Piracy in the Ancient World
Title | Piracy in the Ancient World PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Arderne Ormerod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Mediterranean Region |
ISBN |
Transnational Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1821-1897
Title | Transnational Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1821-1897 PDF eBook |
Author | Leonidas Mylonakis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Studies of Mediterranean piracy are usually restricted to the early modern period. This is because western intervention in the orient was believed to have brought about an end to piracy in the region, especially after French expansion into North Africa and the installation of a Bavarian monarchy in Greece. This dissertation analyzes transnational piracy in Greece and the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century showing that violent maritime crime continued to the century's end. By looking at unpublished archival sources in Ottoman Turkish, Greek, French, English, and Italian housed in the Ottoman Prime Ministry archives, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs archives, and other regional collections, this work is the first study to document the continued persistence of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean after the French colonization of Algiers in 1830 and the end of the Greek War of Independence in 1832. It charts the changing rates and nature of piracy over the course of the nineteenth century and considers the factors that shaped it, with these ranging from political reforms to changes in the regional economy caused by the accelerated integration of the Mediterranean into the expanding global economy during the third quarter of the century. It also considers imperial power struggles, ecological phenomena, shifting maritime trade routes, revisions in international maritime law, and changes in the regional and world economy to explain the fluctuations in violence at sea. By extending the narrative of piracy in the region well into the modern era, my work revises the current literature by showing that there was much greater continuity between modern and earlier forms of maritime predation.