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The Politics of Piracy : Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America.
The untold story of how colonial pirates transformed America and brought it to the brink of rebellion.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lebanon :
ForeEdge from University Press of New England,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction: The Sorrowful Tale of Robert Snead; Part 1: Beginnings; One London Fog: A Brief, Confusing History of English Piracy Law; Two The Phantom Fleet of Porto Principe: Jamaican Privateering under Charles II; Three "A Spot upon Our Garment": The Red Sea Fever in Colonial New York, 1691- 1698; Part II: An Empire in Crisis; Four Voyage of the Fancy, 1696; Five A Tale of Two Trials; Six The Ballad of Henry Every: Criminality and Print Culture in the Public Sphere; Part III: Pirate Nests.
- Seven "Ignorance of Their Duty": A New Jersey Warning, 1697 Eight A Society of Friends: Quakers and Illicit Trade in Colonial Pennsylvania; Nine "A Bloody Crew of Privateers": Resistance and Right in Rhode Island; Part IV: Rope's End; Ten The Bonds of Slavery: Law, Letters, and the Resumption Bill of 1701- 1702; Eleven From Community to Periphery: Trial and Execution in the American Colonies, 1705- 1730; Conclusion: Forgotten Revolutions; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.