BOOK: Francesco SERPICO, Il corsaro e le philosophe: Il regno di Napoli e le reggenze barbaresche nel settecento. Pratiche, linguaggi, rappresentazioni giuridiche (Napoli: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2023). ISBN: 9788849553413, pp. 228, 33,00 €

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Gli assalti compiuti nel Settecento dalle ciurme di Tunisi, Tripoli, Algeri, Salé nel Mediterraneo furono considerati dai contemporanei come atti di pirateria o, all’opposto, l’esplicazione di una condotta bellica non dissimile da quella praticata dagli Stati europei sugli spazi marini. La questione costituisce la chiave di lettura per esaminare i problemi aperti, per la cultura giuridica, dal nuovo quadro politico delineato dalla dinastia borbonica che segnò una svolta nei rapporti tra il Mezzogiorno e il tradizionale nemico musulmano. Si trattò di una storia fatta di scontri e incomprensioni, ma anche di collaborazioni inedite e legami inaspettati. Un rapporto destinato fatalmente ad interrompersi all’indomani della Grande Rivoluzione e delle campagne napoleoniche. Nel nuovo ordine della “civilizzazione” e del “progresso”, le reggenze barbaresche sarebbero divenute l’emblema di una umanità barbara e selvaggia, portatrice di valori radicalmente antitetici a quelli occidentali. Da quel momento in avanti, il modello discorsivo del pirata come combattente senza legge e nemico universale avrebbe contribuito a nutrire una nuova retorica: quella coloniale.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Francesco Serpico è professore associato di Storia del diritto medievale e moderno nel Corso di laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza presso il Dipartimento Giuridico dell’Università degli Studi del Molise.

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Introduzione

Il pirata e la costruzione giuridica dell’alterità

1. Hostis communis omnium

2. A tu per tu con il Leviatano: nel laboratorio politico di Carl Schmitt

3. Una «coincidenza degli opposti»: la prospettiva mediterranea

4. La corsa nel Mare Interno in Età moderna. Incontri, scontri, ibridazioni

5. Der unheimliche Feind

Prologo

I Lumi ed il Maghreb. Ambivalenze e chiaroscuri

Capitolo I

A Sud del Mezzogiorno

1. Una storia di frontiera

2. «I turchi non sono più quelli di una volta»

3. Diplomazia e scambi consolari: la scoperta dell’alterità

4. Un État faible

Capitolo II

Il mercantilismo ed il piccolo principe

1. Riprendere la via del mare

2. Jealousy of trade

3. Un mare di carte

4. Ascesa e declino di un riformatore. La politica marittima di Bernardo Tanucci

5. La svolta degli anni Ottanta 101

Capitolo III

La parola alla cultura giuridica: De Jorio vs. Galiani?

1. Riannodando i fili dell’inimicizia

2. La statualizzazione della guerra di corsa

3. Il riconoscimento giuridico delle reggenze nordafricane

4. Dal Baltico al Mediterraneo. La lezione di Martin Hübner

5. Un «obbligo forzoso di divenir ausiliare»

6. Galiani, Vattel e la condanna dei Pirates States

Capitolo IV

Sipario sulla corsa barbaresca

1. Il problema mediterraneo alla vigilia della Rivoluzione francese

2. «O più pace o più guerra»

3. Rough waters. Gli americani nel Mare nostrum

4. Il Mezzogiorno napoleonico e la corsa barbaresca

5. I destini della «civilizzazione»

Epilogo

Orientalismi giuridici

Indice dei nomi

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BOOK: Pierre PRÉTOU, L’invention de la piraterie en France au Moyen Age (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2021). ISBN: 2130829007, pp. 228, 23,00 €

 

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À la fin du Moyen Âge, après des siècles d'abandon du lexique maritime antique, les écritures souveraines s'agitent soudain, car les mots d'une nouvelle accusation pénale sublime - le crime de piraterie des Latins - s'infiltrent dans les archives. Peu à peu, le lexique médiéval des « larrons de mer » se retire des rivages, tandis que s'avance le « pirate » : la France réinventait son criminel en mer au seuil de la modernité. Cette mécanique fut avant tout atlantique et royale : une invention, ou découverte, de la piraterie, telle une relique sainte du passé romain qui serait remontée à la surface avant d'être exploitée par les Valois pour ses vertus pénales. Cette apparition médiévale du pirate français est remarquable en ce qu'elle scrutait désormais l'obéissance des gens de mer, ainsi mis en sujétion par une inflexion terrible de la doctrine pénale. Le royaume de France, devenu une puissance maritime au XVe siècle, livrait ici un nouveau récit pénal des navigations, dans lequel pirates et rois se combattaient, pour mieux transformer le statut de ses frontières atlantiques.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pierre Prétou est professeur d’histoire du Moyen Âge à La Rochelle Université. Spécialiste de l’histoire de la justice dans les espaces atlantiques, il est membre de l’UMR LIENSs, (Littoral, Environnement et Sociétés, CNRS, UMR 7266). Il a également codirigé (avec D. Roland) Fureur et cruauté des capitaines en mer (PUR, 2012).

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Introduction

CHAPITRE 1. LES VIOLENCES MEDIEVALES EN MER

I. L’extinction des récits pirates

II. Le règlement des conflits maritimes

III. L’Amirauté contre le crime

CHAPITRE 2. LA FABRIQUE DU MALEFICE MARITIME

I. Les mers diaboliques

II. Le lexique criminel

III. Le retour du pirate antique

CHAPITRE 3. LE ROYAUME CONTRE LES PIRATES

I. La piraterie en Parlement

II. Les pirates dans les Jugements de la mer

III. Les traités internationaux et les pirates

Conclusion

Pièces justificatives/Table des figures/Sources et bibliographie

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BOOK: Stefan EKLÖF AMIRELL, Hans HÄGERDAL & Bruce BUCHAN (eds.), Piracy in World History (Amsterdam: University Press, 2021). ISBN: 9789463729215, pp. 290, € 124,00 (eBook open access, afterword by Lauren Benton).

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world, mainly for the purpose of furthering colonial forms of domination in the economic, political, military, legal and cultural spheres. By contrast, this edited volume highlights the relevance of both European and non-European understandings of piracy to the development of global maritime security and freedom of navigation. It explores the significance of ‘legal posturing’ on the part of those accused of piracy, as well as the existence of non-European laws and regulations regarding piracy and related forms of maritime violence in the early modern era. The authors in Piracy in World History highlight cases from various parts of the early-modern world, thereby explaining piracy as a global phenomenon.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Stefan Eklöf Amirell is a professor of global history at Linnaeus University, Sweden, and the director of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. His research focuses on colonial encounters and maritime violence during the long nineteenth century.

Hans Hägerdal is a professor of history at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His major fields are East and Southeast Asian history, in particular focusing on early-modern colonial encounters and contact zones, historiographical questions, and the history of slaving.

Bruce Buchan is an intellectual historian specializing in the intersection of colonization with the history of ideas in the late eighteenth century. He is an associate professor in the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences, at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

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Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Piracy in World History

Stefan Eklof Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hagerdal

2 "Publique Enemies to Mankind": International Pirates as a Product of International Politics

Michael Kempe

3 All at Sea: Locke's Tyrants and the Pyrates of Political Thought

Bruce Buchan

4 The Colonial Origins of Theorizing Piracy’s Relation to Failed States

Jennifer L. Gaynor

5 The Bugis-Makassar Seafarers: Pirates or Entrepreneurs?

Hans Hagerdal

6 Piracy in India's Western Littoral: Reality and Representation

Lakshmi Subramanian

7 Holy Warriors, Rebels, and Thieves: Defining Maritime Violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Joshua M. White

8 Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China

Robert J. Antony

9 Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters: Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570–1800

Birgit Tremml-Werner

10 Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis: Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought

Joachim Ostlund and Bruce Buchan

11 "Pirates of the Sea and the Land": Concurrent Vietnamese and French Concepts of Piracy during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Stefan Eklof Amirell

12 Pirate Passages in Global History: Afterword

Lauren Benton

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BOOK: Stefan EKLÖF AMIRELL, Pirates of Empire. Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). ISBN: 9781108594516, £ 75.00

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The suppression of piracy and other forms of maritime violence was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. Focusing on what was seen in the nineteenth century as the three most pirate-infested areas in the region - the Sulu Sea, the Strait of Malacca and Indochina - this comparative study in colonial history explores how piracy was defined, contested and used to resist or justify colonial expansion, particularly during the most intense phase of imperial expansion in Southeast Asia from c.1850 to c.1920. In doing so, it demonstrates that piratical activity continued to occur in many parts of Southeast Asia well beyond the mid-nineteenth century, when most existing studies of piracy in the region end their period of investigation. It also points to the changes over time in how piracy was conceptualised and dealt with by each of the major colonial powers in the region - Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stefan Eklöf Amirell is Associate Professor in History at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He is also the President of the Swedish Historical Association and Sweden's delegate to the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH). Among his previous works are Pirates in Paradise: A Modern History of Southeast Asia's Maritime Marauders (2006) and several articles on piracy in Southeast Asia.

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List of Maps page vi

Preface vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

1 Piracy in Global and Southeast Asian History 21

2 The Sulu Sea 42

3 The Strait of Malacca 96

4 Indochina 161

Conclusion 209

Epilogue: Piracy and the End of Empire 232

Bibliography 236

Index 257

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