Bandits at sea
Subtitle: a pirates reader
By: edited by C.R. Pennell
Contributors: Pennell, C. R
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Pirates; Piracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Brought to book: reading about pirates / C.R. Pennell; title: The pirate and the emperor: power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850 / Anne Pérotin-Dumon; title: The geography of piracy: northern Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century / C.R. Pennell; title: The origins and regulation of eighteenth-century British privateering / David J. Starkey; title: Piracy and world history: an economic perspective on maritime predation / John L. Anderson; title: Pirates and markets / David J. Starkey; title: Corsairing as a commercial system: the edges of legitimate trade / Gonçal López Nadal; title: The seaman as pirate: plunder and social banditry at sea / Marcus Rediker; title: Outlaws at sea, 1660-1720: liberty, equality, and fraternity among the Caribbean freebooters / J.S. Bromley; title: Black men under the black flag / Kenneth J. Kinkor; title: The buccaneer community / B.R. Burg; title: The practice of homosexuality among the pirates of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century China / Dian Murray; title: Cheng I Sao in fact and fiction / Dian Murray; title: Women and piracy in Ireland: from Gráinne O'Malley to Anne Bonny / John C. Appleby; title: Liberty beneath the Jolly Roger: the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirates / Marcus Rediker; title: Women among the Uskoks of Senj: literary images and reality / Wendy Bracewell