Episode 5: Qaramanlis and Corsairs

History of the Modern Middle East - Casual Historian - Een podcast door Grant Hurst

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In this episode we backtrack the narrative two centuries to when the Qaramanli Dynasty came to power in Tripoli, and how they engaged in a campaign of piracy that eventually lead to their demise.  BibliographyCaptives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850, Linda ColleyLibya, John WrightNorth Africa 1800-1900: A Survey from the Nile Valley to the Atlantic, Magali MorsyA History of Modern Libya, Dirk VandewallePower, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776-Present, Michael B. OrenThomas Jefferson’s Quran: Islam and the Founders, Denise A. SpellbergThomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger

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