It also presents piracy as a mode of production, demonstrating that the acquisition of maritime plunder was an extension of the plunder economy that dominated the Maghreb during the medieval period and was linked to the tribal structure, which forms the cornerstone of Ibn Khaldun's theory of the formation of the Maghreb state. Furthermore, it clarifies that modern Algerian identity crystallized within the context of piracy as a mode of production, emphasizing that this trajectory was not unique to Algeria.
The material development of several major European states and empires, and even the Industrial Revolution in England, occurred within the same framework. In this same context, the study seeks to purify the history of piracy in Algeria from the remnants of colonial narratives and offers an answer to the problem of the contrasting outcomes of this mode of production, which failed in Algeria but succeeded in Europe.
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