| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3 | The History Cooperative

Nabil Matar. Britain and Barbary, 1589–1689. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. xiii, 241. $59.95.
This short book represents the third installment of the trilogy that Nabil Matar has written on the social and political relations between Tudor-Stuart Britain and the Muslim Mediterranean. Even more than his previous two volumes in the series, Islam in Britain, 1558–1685 (1998) and Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery (1999), this work concentrates on the connections and conflicts forged between the British and the Islamic societies of North Africa, in particular that of Morocco.	1
Matar notes in his introduction that the book brackets a century that for him represents "the rise and the fall of the Moor in the making of British identity" (p. x). Appropriately for his own background in literature and the theater, the dates of 1589 and 1689 here signify not political or military events but rather the years when two plays that Matar considers emblematic of this theme premiered. He adduces, however, a good many examples that fall well beyond this century, especially in the 1700s, and one is uncertain just what role such extraneous persons and events had in this "making of British identity."	. . .

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