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X marks the spot : the archaeology of piracy /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Skowronek, Russell K., Ewen, Charles Robin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2006]
Series:New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.
Subjects:
Underwater archaeology.
Coastal archaeology.
Pirates > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Charles R. Ewen
  • PART 1. PIRATE LAIRS
  • Pirates and merchants: Port Royal, Jamaica / Donny L. Hamilton
  • On the trail of Jean Lafitte / Joan M. Exnicios
  • Contraband traders, lawless vagabonds, and the British settlement and occupation of Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras / J. David McBride
  • A mariner's Utopia: pirates and logwood in the Bay of Honduras / Daniel Finamore
  • PART 2. PIRATE SHIPS AND THEIR PREY
  • Piracy in the Indian Ocean: Mauritius and the pirate ship Speaker / Patrick LizĂ©
  • Christopher Condent's Fiery Dragon: investigating an early eighteenth-century pirate shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar / John de Bry
  • The pirate ship Whydah / Christopher E. Hamilton
  • The pirate ship Queen Anne's Revenge / Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing
  • The Beaufort inlet shipwreck artifact assemblage / Wayne R. Lusardi
  • Going to see the varmint: piracy in myth and reality on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, 1785-1830 / Mark J. Wagner, Mary R. McCorvie
  • Identifying the victims of piracy in the Spanish Caribbean / Russell K. Skowronek, Charles R. Ewen
  • PART 3. PIRATES IN FACT AND FICTION
  • Pirate imagery / Lawrence E. Babits ... [et al.]
  • X marks the spot - or does it?: anthropological insights into the origins and continuity of fiction and fact in the study of piracy / Russell K. Skowronek.