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The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France

By Meredith Martin, Gillian Weiss
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$60.00
By Meredith Martin, Gillian Weiss
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Winner of the 2023 Leo Gershoy Award

2023 Winner of The David H. Pinkney Prize

Honorable Mention for The Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize 2023

Winner of the 2022 Kenshur Prize

Shortlisted for Apollo Magazine's 2022 Book of the Year

This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV.

Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which...

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