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Consuls and Captives - Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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Consuls and Captives - Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
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Analyzes how negotiations between Dutch consuls and North African
rulers over the liberation of Dutch sailors helped create a new
diplomatic order in the western Mediterranean. This work offers a
new perspective on the history of diplomacy in the western
Mediterranean, examining how piracy and captivity at sea forced
Protestant states from northwest Europe to develop complex
relationships with Islamic North Africa. Tracing how Dutch
diplomats and North African officials negotiated the liberation of
Dutch sailors enslaved in the Maghrib, author Erica Heinsen-Roach
argues that captivity and redemption helped shape (rather than
undermine) a new diplomatic order in the western Mediterranean.
Making use of extensive archival research, Consuls and Captives
shows how encounters with North African society led the Protestant
North to adjust to the norms and practices of the western
Mediterranean. Dutch consuls became state representatives, tasked
with claiming the unconditional release of captives from the
Netherlands. But caught between these directives and the realities
of Maghribi politics, the diplomats consented to pay ransom,
participated in what they considered lavish gift-giving practices,
and began to pay tribute -- all practices that were departures from
the norms the Dutch States General upheld in "doing" diplomacy. In
analyzing these adjustments, Heinsen-Roach brings into question
earlier interpretations of diplomacy as a progressively evolving
institution anchored in the western modern tradition. Consuls and
Captives shows instead that early modern diplomacy in the western
Mediterranean developed in uneven ways as a product of cultural
encounters. With its compelling argument and wide-ranging evidence,
this book will have a strong appeal to scholars of early modern
diplomacy, slavery, and Mediterranean history, as well as to
specialists on the Dutch Republic. Erica Heinsen-Roach is visiting
assistant professor at the University of South Florida St.
Petersburg.
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