Bandits at Sea A Pirates Reader

Name: Bandits at Sea A Pirates Reader
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ISBN: 9780814766781

ISBN-10: 0814766781

ISBN-13: 9780814766781

Edition: 2001

Authors: C. R. Pennell

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"Each of the twelve authors deftly plumb the depths of documentary sources, literary analyses, personal observations, biographical and historical accounts to improve vastly on the seemingly two-dimensional nature of the pirate" The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History "With this collection, those swashbuckling heroes, or villains, ranging the wide seas in search of pillage and plunder, become individuals and groups situated firmly within their own geographic, political, economic, and historical contexts." Journal of Folklore Research The romantic fiction of pirates as swashbuckling marauders terrorizing the high seas has long eclipsed historical fact.…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

C. R. Pennell is al-Tajir Lecturer in Middle East History and Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and author of Morocco since 1830 , also available from NYU Press.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Brought to Book: Reading about Pirates	p. 3
The Pirate and the Emperor: Power and the Law on the Seas, 1450-1850	p. 25
The Geography of Piracy: Northern Morocco in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	p. 55
The Origins and Regulation of Eighteenth-Century British Privateering	p. 69
Piracy and World History: An Economic Perspective on Maritime Predation	p. 82
Pirates and Markets	p. 107
Corsairing as a Commercial System: The Edges of Legitimate Trade	p. 125
The Seaman as Pirate: Plunder and Social Banditry at Sea	p. 139
Outlaws at Sea, 1660-1720: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity among the Caribbean Freebooters	p. 169
Black Men under the Black Flag	p. 195
The Buccaneer Community	p. 211
The Practice of Homosexuality among the Pirates of Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century China	p. 244
Cheng I Sao in Fact and Fiction	p. 253
Women and Piracy in Ireland: From Grainne O'Malley to Anne Bonny	p. 283
Liberty beneath the Jolly Roger: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates	p. 299
Women among the Uskoks of Senj: Literary Images and Reality	p. 321
Contributors	p. 335
Permissions	p. 339
Index	p. 341
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