Bandits at sea: A pirates reader
Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) (2001). Bandits at sea: A pirates reader. New York University: New York / London. ISBN 978-0814766781 . 351 pp.
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Pirates > Piracy
Marien/Kust |
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- Pennell, C.R. (2001). Introduction: brought to book: reading about pirates, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 3-24, meer
- Pérotin-Dumon, A. (2001). The pirate and the emperor: power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 25-54, meer
- Pennell, C.R. (2001). The geography of piracy: northern Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 55-68, meer
- Starkey, D.J. (2001). The origins and regulation of eighteenth-century British privateering, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 69-81, meer
- Anderson, J. (2001). Piracy and world history. An economic perspective on maritime predation, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 82-106, meer
- Starkey, D.J. (2001). Pirates and markets, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 107-124, meer
- Nadal, G.L. (2001). Corsairing as a commercial system. The edges of legitimate trade, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 125-136, meer
- Rediker, M. (2001). The seaman as pirate: plunder and social banditry at sea, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 139-168, meer
- Bromley, J.S. (2001). Outlaws at sea, 1660-1720. Liberty, equality, and fraternity among the Carribean freebooters, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 169-194, meer
- Kinkor, K. J. (2001). Black men under the black flag, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 195-210, meer
- Burg, B.R. (2001). The buccaneer community, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 211-243, meer
- Murray, D. (2001). The practice of homosexuality among the pirates of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century China, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 244-252, meer
- Murray, D. (2001). Cheng I Sao in fact and fiction, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 253-282, meer
- Appleby, J.C. (2001). Women and piracy in Ireland. From Gráinne O'Malley to Anne Bonny, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 283-298, meer
- Rediker, M. (2001). Liberty beneath the Jolly Roger. The lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirates, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 299-320, meer
- Bracewell, W. (2001). Women among the Uskoks of Senj. Literary images and reality, in: Pennell, C.R. (Ed.) Bandits at sea: a pirates reader. pp. 321-334, meer
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| Abstract |
The romantic fiction of pirates as swashbuckling marauders terrorizing the high seas has long eclipsed historical fact. Bandits at Sea offers a long-overdue corrective to the mythology and the mystique which has plagued the study of pirates and served to deny them their rightful legitimacy as subjects of investigation. With essays by the foremost scholars on these countercultural "social bandits"as Lingua Franca recently dubbed themthis collection examines various aspects of the phenomenon in the three main areas where it occurred: the Caribbean/Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and East Asia. We come to understand who pirates were, as well as the socio-economic contexts under which they developed and flourished. Comparisons between various types of piracy illustrate differences in practice and purpose between pirates of different areas; social histories, including examinations of women pirates and their historical significance and circumstances, offer similar insight into the personal lives of pirates from diverse regions. Far from serving as dens of thieves, pirate ships were often highly regulated microcosms of democracy. The crews of pirate vessels knew that majority rule, racial equality and equitable division of spoils were crucial for their survival, marking them as significantly more liberal than national governments. Scholars, students and a general audience ever intrigued by talesand now truthsof piracy on the high seas will welcome Bandits at Sea. |
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