Mario Klarer is a professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of several Routledge textbooks, monographs on literature and the visual arts as well as literary utopias. His forthcoming publications include a primary text anthology of Barbary Coast captivity narratives and a digital edition of the Ambraser Heldenbuch.

• Lists of figuresAcknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction Mario KlarerPart 1 Labor and Law1. Trading Identities: Balthasar Sturmer’s Verzeichnis der Reise (1558) and the Making of the European Barbary Captivity NarrativeMario Klarer2. Unkind Dealings: English Captivity Narratives, Commercial Transformation, and the Economy of Unfree Labor in the Early Modern PeriodDaniel Vitkus3. Ambivalences of Recognition: The Position of the Barbary Corsairs in Early Modern International Law and International PoliticsWalter Rech4. "Free, Unfree, Captive, Slave:" António de Saldanha, a Late Sixteenth-Century Captive in MarrakeshPeter MarkPart 2 Home and Hybridity5. "Renegades:" Converts to Islam in American Barbary Captivity Narratives of the 1790sAnna Diamantouli6. Identity Crises of Homecomers from the Barbary CoastRobert Spindler7. "Arab Speculators:" States and Ransom Slavery in the Western Sahara Christine E. SearsPart 3 Diplomacy and Deliverance8. Michael Heberer: A Prisoner in the Ottoman NavyRobert Rebitsch9. Piracy, Diplomacy, and Cultural Circulations in the MediterraneanKhalid Bekkaoui10. A Comparison of Confraternity Models in the "Redemption of Slaves" in Europe: The Broederschap der alderheylighste Dryvuldigheyt of Brugge/Bruges and the Scuola della Santissima Trinità of VeniceAndrea Pelizza Part 4 Oppositions and Otherness11. A Huguenot Captive in ‘Uthman Dey’s Court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and Its AuthorGillian Weiss12. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa: Clashing Portraits of a Corsair-KingDiana de Armas Wilson13. Two Arabic Accounts of Captivity in Malta: Texts and ContextsNabil Matar

Mario Klarer is a professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of several Routledge textbooks, monographs on literature and the visual arts as well as literary utopias. His forthcoming publications include a primary text anthology of Barbary Coast captivity narratives and a digital edition of the Ambraser Heldenbuch.

• Lists of figuresAcknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction Mario KlarerPart 1 Labor and Law1. Trading Identities: Balthasar Sturmer’s Verzeichnis der Reise (1558) and the Making of the European Barbary Captivity NarrativeMario Klarer2. Unkind Dealings: English Captivity Narratives, Commercial Transformation, and the Economy of Unfree Labor in the Early Modern PeriodDaniel Vitkus3. Ambivalences of Recognition: The Position of the Barbary Corsairs in Early Modern International Law and International PoliticsWalter Rech4. "Free, Unfree, Captive, Slave:" António de Saldanha, a Late Sixteenth-Century Captive in MarrakeshPeter MarkPart 2 Home and Hybridity5. "Renegades:" Converts to Islam in American Barbary Captivity Narratives of the 1790sAnna Diamantouli6. Identity Crises of Homecomers from the Barbary CoastRobert Spindler7. "Arab Speculators:" States and Ransom Slavery in the Western Sahara Christine E. SearsPart 3 Diplomacy and Deliverance8. Michael Heberer: A Prisoner in the Ottoman NavyRobert Rebitsch9. Piracy, Diplomacy, and Cultural Circulations in the MediterraneanKhalid Bekkaoui10. A Comparison of Confraternity Models in the "Redemption of Slaves" in Europe: The Broederschap der alderheylighste Dryvuldigheyt of Brugge/Bruges and the Scuola della Santissima Trinità of VeniceAndrea Pelizza Part 4 Oppositions and Otherness11. A Huguenot Captive in ‘Uthman Dey’s Court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and Its AuthorGillian Weiss12. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa: Clashing Portraits of a Corsair-KingDiana de Armas Wilson13. Two Arabic Accounts of Captivity in Malta: Texts and ContextsNabil Matar

Mario Klarer is a professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of several Routledge textbooks, monographs on literature and the visual arts as well as literary utopias. His forthcoming publications include a primary text anthology of Barbary Coast captivity narratives and a digital edition of the Ambraser Heldenbuch.

• Lists of figuresAcknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction Mario KlarerPart 1 Labor and Law1. Trading Identities: Balthasar Sturmer’s Verzeichnis der Reise (1558) and the Making of the European Barbary Captivity NarrativeMario Klarer2. Unkind Dealings: English Captivity Narratives, Commercial Transformation, and the Economy of Unfree Labor in the Early Modern PeriodDaniel Vitkus3. Ambivalences of Recognition: The Position of the Barbary Corsairs in Early Modern International Law and International PoliticsWalter Rech4. "Free, Unfree, Captive, Slave:" António de Saldanha, a Late Sixteenth-Century Captive in MarrakeshPeter MarkPart 2 Home and Hybridity5. "Renegades:" Converts to Islam in American Barbary Captivity Narratives of the 1790sAnna Diamantouli6. Identity Crises of Homecomers from the Barbary CoastRobert Spindler7. "Arab Speculators:" States and Ransom Slavery in the Western Sahara Christine E. SearsPart 3 Diplomacy and Deliverance8. Michael Heberer: A Prisoner in the Ottoman NavyRobert Rebitsch9. Piracy, Diplomacy, and Cultural Circulations in the MediterraneanKhalid Bekkaoui10. A Comparison of Confraternity Models in the "Redemption of Slaves" in Europe: The Broederschap der alderheylighste Dryvuldigheyt of Brugge/Bruges and the Scuola della Santissima Trinità of VeniceAndrea Pelizza Part 4 Oppositions and Otherness11. A Huguenot Captive in ‘Uthman Dey’s Court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and Its AuthorGillian Weiss12. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa: Clashing Portraits of a Corsair-KingDiana de Armas Wilson13. Two Arabic Accounts of Captivity in Malta: Texts and ContextsNabil Matar