Bandits at sea : a pirates reader /
Presents sixteen articles about pirates and piracy, exploring the question of how pirates are to be identified and described, and examining specific themes in piracy.
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2001]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description Additional Information at Google Books Inhaltsverzeichnis |
Table of Contents:
- part I Situating piracy : Introduction : brought to book: reading about pirates / C.R. Pennell
- The pirate and the emperor : power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850 / Anne Pérotin-Dumon
- The geography of piracy : Northern Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century / C.R. Pennell
- The origins and regulation of eighteenth-century British privateering / David J. Starkey
- Piracy and world history : an economic perspective on maritime predation / John L. Anderson
- Pirates and markets / David J. Starkey
- Corsairing as a commercial system : the edges of legitimate trade / Gonçal López Nadal
- part II Pirates in action : The seaman as pirate : plunder and social banditry at sea / Marcus Rediker
- Outlaws at sea, 1660-1720 : liberty, equality, and fraternity among the Caribbean freebooters / J.S. Bromley
- Black men under the black flag / Kenneth J. Kinkor
- The Buccaneer community / B.R. Burg
- The practice of homosexuality among the pirates of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century China / Dian Murray
- Cheng I Sao in fact and fiction / Dian Murray
- Women and piracy in Ireland : from Gráinne O'Malley to Anne Bonny / John C. Appleby
- Liberty beneath the Jolly Roger : the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirates / Marcus Rediker
- Women among the Uskoks of Senj : literary images and reality / Wendy Bracewell.