OARED GALLEYS – THE STORY OF LA REAL: PART 1
When people think of Barbary corsairs, they often envision them in oared galleys massing to attack European sailing ships—rather like[…]
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Author: Adam Nichols
I'm an associate professor with the University of Maryland, in the U.S. I spent twenty years teaching for the University of Maryland’s European division, in England, Scotland, Norway, Iceland, and Germany, and downrange on military installations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. I've also lived and worked in Australia, China, and Canada. I presently live in the U.S.
SLAVERY IN NORTH AFRICA
Mostly, when we think of slavery, we think of it in terms of the Africans who were forcibly shipped across[…]
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THE DUTCH CONNECTION: HOW SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DUTCH PRIVATEERS BECAME BARBARY CORSAIRS IN NORTH AFRICA – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of The Dutch Connection: How Seventeenth Century Dutch Privateers Became Barbary Corsairs in North Africa[…]
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THE DUTCH CONNECTION: HOW SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DUTCH PRIVATEERS BECAME BARBARY CORSAIRS IN NORTH AFRICA – PART 1
The idea that Dutch privateers should have ended up among the Barbary corsairs of North Africa may at first seem[…]
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THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS
Barbary corsairs weren’t just pirates. They were part of a larger enterprise. There was a religious element to that enterprise:[…]
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CAPTIVE ICELANDERS IN ALGIERS
It’s been two weeks since I last posted anything in this blog. My apologies. I’ve been overwhelmed with last-minute work[…]
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THE ART OF SHOOTING GREAT ORDINANCE
The term “great ordinance” was used throughout the seventeenth (and the late sixteenth and early eighteenth) centuries to mean “cannon”[…]
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THE BARBARY CORSAIR RAID ON THE FAROE ISLANDS
In the early 1600s, Barbary corsairs were on a role—as the saying goes. From Europeans, they had learned how to[…]
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CORSAIR CAPTAINS OPERATING OUT OF ALGIERS IN 1625-26
In 1612, the republic of the Netherlands negotiated a treaty with the Ottoman Sultan that guaranteed trade privileges for Dutch[…]
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THE ECONOMICS OF THE BARBARY CORSAIR ENTERPRISE
In Algiers in the seventeenth century, piracy was big business. Algerian corsairs brought back enormous amounts of booty and hundreds[…]
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