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Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean : maritime marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean / Leonidas Mylonakis.

By: Mylonakis, Leonidas [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xv, 192 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780755606696; 0755606698; 9780755643608; 0755643607Subject(s): 1800-1899 | Piracy -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century | Piracy -- Aegean Sea -- History -- 19th century | Piracy | Piracy -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century | Piracy -- Aegean Sea -- History -- 19th century | Middle East -- History -- 19th century | Aegean Sea -- History -- 19th century | Moyen-Orient -- Histoire -- 19e siècle | Égée, Mer -- Histoire -- 19e siècle | Mediterranean Sea -- Aegean Sea | Middle East | Middle East -- History -- 19th century | Aegean Sea -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: HistoryAdditional physical formats: Ebook version :: No titleDDC classification: 909/.096384081 | 956/.015 | 940.2 LOC classification: DS62.7 | .M95 2021D250
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Piracy Enters the Modern Era -- 2. Piracy during the Ottoman Civil Wars -- 3. A New Age of Piracy -- 4. Paris, Patrols, and Persistent Piracy -- 5. Currants, Capital, and Declining Piracy -- 6. Piracy during the 1897 Greco-Ottoman War.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-186) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Piracy Enters the Modern Era -- 2. Piracy during the Ottoman Civil Wars -- 3. A New Age of Piracy -- 4. Paris, Patrols, and Persistent Piracy -- 5. Currants, Capital, and Declining Piracy -- 6. Piracy during the 1897 Greco-Ottoman War.

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.