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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pennell, C. R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
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.