The Politics of Piracy : Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America /

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Autor principal: Burgess, Douglas R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pirates.
Piracy.
Colonies > Administration.
British colonies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Pirates > États-Unis > Histoire.
Piracy > United States > History.
Pirates > United States > History.
United States.
America.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amerique > Administration.
États-Unis > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Administration.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the sorrowful tale of Robert Snead
  • Part I. Beginnings
  • London fog: a brief, confusing history of English piracy law
  • The phantom fleet of Porto Principe: privateering and admiralty, 1660-1688
  • "A spot upon our garment": the Red Sea fever in colonial New York, 1691-1698
  • Part II. An empire in crisis
  • Voyage of the Fancy, 1696
  • The successful pyrate: a tale of two trials
  • The ballad of Henry Every: criminality and print culture in the public sphere
  • Part III. Pirate nests
  • "Ignorance of their duty": a New Jersey warning, 1697
  • A society of friends: piracy and Quakerism in Pennsylvania
  • "A bloody crew of privateers": resistance and right in Rhode Island
  • Part IV. Rope's end
  • The bonds of slavery: law, letters, and the Resumption Bill of 1701-2
  • From community to periphery: trial and execution in the American colonies, 1705-1730
  • Conclusion: forgotten revolutions.

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