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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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Autor principal: Kelleher, Connie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cork : Cork University Press, 2020.
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