Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition : English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition.

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Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world-famous amusement park ride. In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, historian B.R. Burg investigate...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Burg, B. R.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : NYU Press, 1995.
Édition:2nd ed.
Sujets:
1600-1699
Male homosexuality > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
Male homosexuality > England > History > 17th century.
Pirates > Sexual behavior > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
Homosexualité masculine > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Homosexualité masculine > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Pirates > Sexualité > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 17e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Male homosexuality.
Pirates > Sexual behavior.
Caribbean Area.
England.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world-famous amusement park ride. In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, historian B.R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfillment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other all- male institutions su.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (266 pages)
ISBN:9780814739228
0814739229

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