The golden age of piracy : the rise, fall, and enduring popularity of pirates /

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"Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. The essays presented take the study of piracy, which can ea...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Head, David (Historian) (Editor , Contribuidor), Burgess, Douglas R., Jr (Contribuidor), Chet, Guy, 1968- (Contribuidor), Coakley, John A. (Contribuidor), Eastman, Carolyn (Contribuidor), Jortner, Adam Joseph (Contribuidor), Leeson, Peter T., 1979- (Contribuidor), Lincoln, Margarette (Contribuidor), Lunsford, Virginia West (Contribuidor), McDonald, Kevin P., 1972- (Contribuidor), Pestana, Carla Gardina (Contribuidor), Raffety, Matthew Taylor, 1972- (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Temas:
1600-1799
Pirates > History > 17th century.
Pirates > History > 18th century.
Piracy > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Piracy > Caribbean Area > History.
Pirates > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Pirates > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Piracy
Pirates
Seeräuberei
Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 17th century.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 18th century.
Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
Caribbean Area > History > 18th century.
Atlantique, Région de l' > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Atlantique, Région de l' > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Atlantic Ocean Region
Caribbean Area
Karibik
History
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why Atlantic piracy? / Carla Gardina Pestana
  • Jamaica's private seafarers : politics and violence in a seventeenth-century English colony / John A. Coakley
  • "Sailors from the woods" : logwood cutting and the spectrum of piracy / Kevin P. McDonald
  • Trial and error : piracy trials in England and its colonies, 1696-1723 / Douglas R. Burgess
  • Protecting trade by suppressing pirates : British colonial and metropolitan responses to Atlantic piracy, 1716-1726 / David Wilson
  • The persistence of piracy in the British Atlantic / Guy Chet
  • A model of piracy : the buccaneers of the seventeenth-century Caribbean / Virginia W. Lunsford
  • The economic way of thinking about pirates / Peter T. Leeson
  • Henry Every and the creation of the pirate myth in early modern Britain / Margarette Lincoln
  • "Blood and lust" : masculinity and sexuality in illustrated print portrayals of early pirates of the Caribbean / Carolyn Eastman
  • A woman is to blame : gender and the literature of antebellum pirate confessions / Matthew Taylor Raffety
  • Pirate ghosts and buried treasure : hunting for gold in the new American republic / Adam Jortner.

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