Persistent Piracy [electronic resource] : Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Global Historical Perspective /
Amirell, Stefan Eklöf.editor.
Müller, Leos.editor.
Persisent piracy : historical perspectives on maritime violence and state formation(3-5 May 2012 :Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Swedish Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden)
Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Map and Table; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Persistent Piracy in World History; 1 Piracy in Classical Antiquity: The Origins and Evolution of the Concept; 2 Ship-Men and Slaughter-Wolves: Pirate Polities in the Viking Age; 3 Violence, Protection and Commerce: Corsairing and ars piratica in the Early Modern Mediterranean; 4 A Hokkien Maritime Empire in the East and South China Seas, 1620-83; 5 Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Vietnam: Piracy and the Tay Son Rebellion, 1771-1802
6 A Persistent Phenomenon: Private Prize-Taking in the British Atlantic World, c. 1540-18567 Trade for Bullion to Trade for Commodities and ''Piracy'': China, the West and the Sulu Zone, 1768-1898; 8 Piracy, Security and State-Formation in the Early Twenty-First Century; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea.
History, Modern.
World history.
Asia-History.
Criminology.
Europe-History.
Modern History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Asian History.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
European History.
Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.