From the mid-eighteenth century until the early nineteenth century, pirate ships from the so-called Barbary States on the North African coast terrorized foreign shipping in the Mediterranean Sea. What are now the seaport cities of Tangiers (Morocco),...

The Barbary Treaties refer to several treaties between the United States of America and the semi-autonomous North African city-states of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, known collectively as the Barbary...

Britain and Barbary. By Nabil Matar. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. 172; appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $59.85. Nabil Matar is professor of English and chair of the Department of Humanities and Communication at the Florida Institute of Technology. This book...

Fue una manera bastante cínica de descargarse de culpas: Hussein fue ahorcado, contra las normas utilizadas por los verdugos ingleses, e inclusive con el desacuerdo de algunos estadunidenses, que simplemente les llaman ejecuciones legales. Conviene, pues, empezar por el sustantivo: ejecuciones. La...