In this book, Davis uses many new historical sources to re-examine one of the least understood forms of human bondage in modern times - the systematic enslavement of white, Christian Europeans by the Muslims of North Africa's Barbary Coast. Far from the minor phenomenon that many have assumed it to [...]
Working from the premise that the rise and propagation of antisemitism in late 19th-century Germany cannot be separated from the context of colonial empire, "Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany" is the first work to study the dynamic and evolving interrelatio[...]