Captives, colonists and craftspeople : material culture and institutional power in Malta, 1600-1900 /
Over the course of four centuries, the island of Malta underwent several significant political transformations, including its roles as a Catholic bastion under the Knights of St. John between 1530 and 1798, and as a British maritime hub in the nineteenth century. This innovative study draws on both...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2021]
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| Summary: | Over the course of four centuries, the island of Malta underwent several significant political transformations, including its roles as a Catholic bastion under the Knights of St. John between 1530 and 1798, and as a British maritime hub in the nineteenth century. This innovative study draws on both archival evidence and archeological findings to compare slavery and coerced labor, resource control, globalization and other historical phenomena in Malta under the two regimes, one feudal, the other colonial. Spanning conventional divides between the early and late modern eras, Russell Palmer offers here a rich analysis of a Mediterranean island against a background of immense European and global change. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789207781 1789207789 |