Title: Social policy in a changing society /
Authors: Mullard, Maurice, 1946-; Spicker, Paul.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Social change; Social policy
Contents: Series Foreword / Robert M. Levine -- A Chronology of Early Modern Piracy in the Americas -- Ch. 1. Spain and the Sixteenth Century Corsairs. -- The Brothers Barbarossa and the Barbary Coast Corsairs. -- Jambe de Bois and the First Caribbean Corsairs. -- Contrabanding and the Treaty of Cateau Cambresis -- Ch. 2. Smugglers, Pirates, and Privateers: The Elizabethans. -- West Country Slave Traders. -- San Juan de Ulua and Aftermath. -- Drake and Elizabethan Piracy. -- Elizabethan Privateers -- Ch. 3. From the Low Countries to the High Seas: The Dutch Sea Rovers. -- Calvinism and Competition at Sea. -- Salt and Sovereignty in the Caribbean. -- Piet Heyn and the Dutch West India Company. -- Dutch Intruders in the Pacific -- Ch. 4. The Seventeenth Century Caribbean Buccaneers. -- Renegades and Runaways on Hispaniola and Tortuga. -- Port Royal, Jamaica: Pirate Haven. -- Henry Morgan and the Treaty of Madrid. -- Buccaneers as Loggers and Privateers -- Ch. 5. Buccaneers in the South Sea. -- John Narborough and the Charlatan. -- Bartholomew Sharp: Pirate Captain of Last Resort -- The Second Pirate Cycle in the South Sea. -- Grogniet and Guayaquil, 1687. -- Captain Franco, Shipwrecks, and Contraband -- Ch. 6 The Last Buccaneers and Pirate Suppression. -- The Buccaneer Denouement. -- Henry Avery and Captain Kidd. -- Treasure Wrecks and the Anglo American Freebooters. -- App. Table of Early Modern Pirates and Contemporary European Monarchs.