The Alliance of Pirates : Ireland and Atlantic piracy in the early seventeenth century /
In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privateering in 1603 by the new king of England, disenfranchised like-minded men of the sea, many former privateers, naval sailors, ordinary seamen and traditional...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cork :
Cork University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1 Deeds and Misdeeds: The beginnings
- 2 A Piratical Alliance
- 3 Honourable Crimes and Corrupt Times
- 4 Pirate Places and Pirate Traces
- 5 The Business of Piracy
- 6 The Social World of Amphibious Lives
- 7 The Beginning of the End: Suppression, commission and execution
- 8 Decline and Transformations
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover