Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition

Name: Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780814712368

ISBN-10: 0814712363

ISBN-13: 9780814712368

Edition: 2nd 1995 (Revised)

Authors: B. R. Burg

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"A great . . . very interesting book." Johnny Depp "Burg puts historians to shame by raising extremely interesting questions that no one before had asked." Christopher Hill inNew York Review of Books Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world-famous amusement park ride. InSodomy and the Pirate Tradition, historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction to the New Edition


Introduction



Sodomy and Public Perception Seventeenth-Century England



To Train Up a Buccaneer



The Caribbee Isles



Buccaneer Sexuality



The Buccaneer Community


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index