The Galley Slave's Ring
Author : Eugène Sue
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1911
Category : France
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Author : Eugène Sue
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1911
Category : France
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Author : Eugène Sue
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Jean Marteilhe
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1783468688
This remarkable memoir tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, a Protestant condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion, who, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, attempted, like so many French Huguenots, to escape to the more sympathetic Protestant countries bordering France. In 1700, heading through the Ardennes towards Charleroi, he was captured by French Dragoons and thrown into gaol.In 1707 he then found himself, like so many Huguenots, condemned to serve in the French Mediterranean galleys. Little is known of life as a galley slave on these oared vessels. Certainly no accounts have come down to us from ancient Greece or Rome, though a little is known from the time of the Crusades. So Marteilhes racy account represents the only authentic record of the miseries of a galley slave who experienced all the horrors of whips and chains and the dreaded bastinado—foot whipping.For six years he pulled his oar, often seeing friends and co-religionists lashed—sometimes to death—under the whips of the overseers. He himself sustained almost fatal injuries in a bloody engagement with the British off the mouth of the Thames before being released under a general amnesty in 1713.Galley Slave brings vividly to life the sufferings and conditions on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century galleys and is a unique and unforgettable account.
Author : Jean Marteilhe
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Page : 282 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Huguenots
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Author : Charlotte Haldane
Publisher : London : Harvill Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Composers
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Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 019975263X
Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters-sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims-who have crossed and re-crossed it. Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all a history of human interaction. Interweaving major political and naval developments with the ebb and flow of trade, Abulafia explores how commercial competition in the Mediterranean created both rivalries and partnerships, with merchants acting as intermediaries between cultures, trading goods that were as exotic on one side of the sea as they were commonplace on the other. He stresses the remarkable ability of Mediterranean cultures to uphold the civilizing ideal of convivencia, "living together." Now available in paperback, The Great Sea is the definitive account of perhaps the most vibrant theater of human interaction in history.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 131755454X
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History, Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to investigate the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to abolition, including comparisons to other systems of slavery outside the Atlantic region and the persistence of modern-day slavery. Crucially, the book does not ask readers to abandon their emotional ties to the subject, but puts events in context so that it becomes clear how such an institution not only arose, but flourished. Black shows that slavery and the slave trade were not merely add-ons to the development of Western civilization, but intimately linked to it. In a vital and accessible narrative, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History enables students to understand this terrible element of human history and how it shaped the modern world.
Author : Giuseppe Baretti
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Page : 814 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1854
Category : English language
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Page : 814 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Robert Burn
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 1870
Category : English language
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