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Informationen zum Autor Nabil Matar is professor of English and chair of the Department ofHumanities and Communication at the Florida Institute of Technology. This book is the third and final installment in his trilogy that includes Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 and Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. Klappentext Matar examines the influence of Mediterranean piracy and diplomacy on early modern British history and identity. Drawing on published and unpublished literary, commercial, and epistolary sources, he situates British maritime activity and national politics, especially in relation to the Civil War, within the international context of Anglo-Magharibi encounters. Before there was the British encounter with America, there was the much more complex and destabilizing encounter with Islam in North Africa. Zusammenfassung Examines the influence of Mediterranean piracy and diplomacy on early modern British history and identity. This book situates British maritime activity and national politics! in relation to the Civil War! within the context of Anglo-Magharibi encounters. It examines the impact of early visits of Moroccan officials on English playwrights.
