Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates

Name: Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates
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ISBN: 9780674095021

ISBN-10: 0674095022

ISBN-13: 9780674095021

Edition: 1986 (Reprint)

Authors: Robert C. Ritchie

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The legends that die hardest are those of the romantic outlaw, and those of swashbuckling pirates are surely among the most durable. Swift ships, snug inns, treasures buried by torchlight, palm-fringed beaches, fabulous riches, and, most of all, freedom from the mean life of the laboring man are the stuff of this tradition reinforced by many a novel and film. It is disconcerting to think of such dashing scoundrels as slaves to economic forces, but so they were--as Robert Ritchie demonstrates in this lively history of piracy. He focuses on the shadowy figure of William Kidd, whose career in the late seventeenth century swept him from the Caribbean to New York, to London, to the Indian…

Book details

List price: $29.50
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




The Sea Peoples



From Pirate to Friend of the Junto



Voyage to Madagascar



The Pirates' Last Frontier



Life in a Pirate Settlement



Revenge of the Company



Cat and Mouse



Winners and Losers



The Trial



Of Death, Destruction, and Myths Abbreviations


Notes


Index