The  pirates' pact
Subtitle: pirates and patrons of the Atlantic world, 1650-1718
By: Douglas R. Burgess Jr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780071474764
Subjects: Pirates -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- History; Pirates -- Caribbean Area -- History; Piracy -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- History; Piracy -- Caribbean Area -- History; Governors -- United States -- History; Governors -- West Indies, British -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration; Great Britain -- Colonies -- West Indies -- Administration
Description: 301 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enemies of the human race; title: Erring captains : state-sponsored piracy and its aftermath; title: "His majesty's pleasure" : Henry Morgan and Jamaica; title: Oddsfish!; title: The pirate cabal; title: King Baldridge and the Red Sea pirates; title: Amity, liberty, and Thomas Tew; title: Henry Every, "as yet an Englishman's friend"; title: Trials and tribulations; title: The most hated man in America; title: Nemesis; title: "Your loving friends"; title: The despair of Lord Bellomont; title: "That race of wicked men"; title: Afterword : pirate patronage in the twenty-first century.