The golden age of piracy : the rise, fall, and enduring popularity of pirates
Record details
- ISBN: 0820353272
- ISBN: 9780820353272
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles
remote - Publisher: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Why Atlantic piracy? / Carla Gardina Pestana -- Jamaica's private seafarers : politics and violence in a seventeenth-century English colony / John A. Coakley -- "Sailors from the woods" : logwood cutting and the spectrum of piracy / Kevin P. McDonald -- Trial and error : piracy trials in England and its colonies, 1696-1723 / Douglas R. Burgess -- Protecting trade by suppressing pirates : British colonial and metropolitan responses to Atlantic piracy, 1716-1726 / David Wilson -- The persistence of piracy in the British Atlantic / Guy Chet -- A model of piracy : the buccaneers of the seventeenth-century Caribbean / Virginia W. Lunsford -- The economic way of thinking about pirates / Peter T. Leeson -- Henry Every and the creation of the pirate myth in early modern Britain / Margarette Lincoln -- "Blood and lust" : masculinity and sexuality in illustrated print portrayals of early pirates of the Caribbean / Carolyn Eastman -- A woman is to blame : gender and the literature of antebellum pirate confessions / Matthew Taylor Raffety -- Pirate ghosts and buried treasure : hunting for gold in the new American republic / Adam Jortner. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. History. History. |