The agents of empire : knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean w...
The agents of empire : knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean w...
The agents of empire : knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world / Noel Malcolm.
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Publisher
UK Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015.
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G 2015/2654
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxv, 604 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
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text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Ulcinj, Albania and Two Empires -- 2.Three Families -- 3.Antonio Bruti in the Service of Venice -- 4.Giovanni Bruni in the Service of God -- 5.Gasparo Bruni and the Knights of Malta -- 6.Galleys and Geopolitics -- 7.Rebellion and Ottoman Conquest -- 8.The Lepanto C...
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Publisher
UK Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous front...
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The agents of empire : knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world / Noel Malcolm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2015.
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G 2015/2654
Record Identifier
74VK78kRMGpZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK78kRMGpZ
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ISBN
9780241003893 (hardback)
DDC
940.23
MMS ID
991022913959702626
