Awards

• Commended for Honorable Mention for The Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies, granted by The Mediterranean Seminar 2021
• Winner of Winner of the 2019 Best First Book Prize by the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2021
• Winner of Winner of the Sharon Harris Book Award, granted by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute 2021
• Winner of Winner of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute's Sharon Harris Book Award 2021

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"""[A] thoroughly researched, clearly structured, convincingly argued and richly documented monograph on slavery in the early modern western Mediterranean . . . It is time to follow the stories of how enslaved people shaped the communities at home and abroad, and Hershenzon's book will be an indispensable part of this enterprise."" * <i>Bulletin of Spanish Studies</i> * ""The breadth and depth of research, the insight with which Hershenzon draws out the significance of the sources, and the clarity of his writing all make this an impressive and convincing book."" * <i>Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies</i> * ""Daniel Hershenzon persuasively shows how captivity both tore slaves from their communities and connected those communities across the Western Mediterranean. Extensively researched and bracingly argued, The Captive Sea demonstrates the agency and impact of captives in an enduringly entangled Mediterranean world."" * Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles * ""A serious, probing look at early modern Mediterranean slavery. Daniel Hershenzon locates new and highly personalized sources within the vast bureaucratic archives of Spain and then wields them to identify and theorize the expectations and logics of behavior that underlay the captives' struggles to obtain freedom."" * James Amelang, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid *"

[A] thoroughly researched, clearly structured, convincingly argued and richly documented monograph on slavery in the early modern western Mediterranean . . . It is time to follow the stories of how slaves shaped the communities at home and abroad, and Hershenzon's book will be an indispensable part of this enterprise. * <i>Bulletin of Spanish Studies</i> * The breadth and depth of research, the insight with which Hershenzon draws out the significance of the sources, and the clarity of his writing all make this an impressive and convincing book. * <i>Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies</i> * Daniel Hershenzon persuasively shows how captivity both tore slaves from their communities and connected those communities across the Western Mediterranean. Extensively researched and bracingly argued, The Captive Sea demonstrates the agency and impact of captives in an enduringly entangled Mediterranean world. * Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles * A serious, probing look at early modern Mediterranean slavery. Daniel Hershenzon locates new and highly personalized sources within the vast bureaucratic archives of Spain and then wields them to identify and theorize the expectations and logics of behavior that underlay the captives' struggles to obtain freedom. * James Amelang, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid *

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Daniel Hershenzon is Associate Professor of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at the University of Connecticut.

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