...Martin N. Murphy This essay describes the piracy that took place in the Mediterranean from the time of ancient Greece to Barbary. It explains the corso , the sea war between nonstate but state-endorsed Christian and Muslim parties, with reference to the Knights of Malta and, more extensively...

...Robert J. Pranger Nabil Matar: Britain and Barbary, 1589-1689 . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 241 pages. ISBN 0-8130-2871-X. $59.95. Reviewed by Robert J. Pranger. Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant with extensive experience in national security affairs. He...

... to have a thorough understanding of the past: just and unjust. DOI 10.1215/10474552-2006-028 Nabil Matar: Britain and Barbary, 1589 – 1689. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 241 pages. ISBN 0-8130-2871-X. $59.95. Reviewed by Robert J. Pranger. Britain and Barbary, 1589...

... and Barbary, 1589 – 1689. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 241 pages. ISBN 0-8130-2871-X. $59.95. Reviewed by Robert J. Pranger. Britain and Barbary, 1589 – 1689 is the final installment in a trilogy about Britain and the Islamic world written by Professor Nabil Matar of Florida...

.... The next essay in this issue, by Martin Murphy, visiting fellow at the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, provides a sophisticated treat- ment of the origins and evolution of the North African Barbary Pirates. As Murphy convincingly argues, they were not really pirates at all but, rather...

... in the “Great Sea-change,” as Abulafia calls it, of Christian inroads into Mus- lim domination of the Mediterranean, but one I can picture vividly, having spent three years in Albania and visited the remains of the fortress in Durres many times. I had read several of Abulafia’s sources on the Barbary...

... in the “Great Sea-change,” as Abulafia calls it, of Christian inroads into Mus- lim domination of the Mediterranean, but one I can picture vividly, having spent three years in Albania and visited the remains of the fortress in Durres many times. I had read several of Abulafia’s sources on the Barbary...