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02254aam a2200325 i 4500 001 3B1212C6C52611EC906460AF4BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220426010024 008 190924s2018 nyuabf b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1631496220 020 $a 9781631496226 035 $a (OCoLC)1120772042 040 $a APL $b eng $e rda $c APL $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d BUP $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Dolin, Eric Jay, $e author. 245 10 $a Black flags, blue waters : $b the epic history of America's most notorious pirates / $c Eric Jay Dolin. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2018] 300 $a xxi, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-365) and index. 520 $a "Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's 'Golden Age'--spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s--when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Blending scholarship and drama, Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the British Crown, and then violently opposed them. Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, among them the towering Blackbeard, the ill-fated Captain Kidd, and the sadistic Edward Low, who delighted in torturing his prey"--Back cover 505 00 $t Epilogue: "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" $t Welcomed with open arms -- $t "Where the money was as plenty as stones and sand" -- $t Crackdown -- $t War's reprieve -- $t Interlude, or a pirate classification -- $t Treasure and the tempest -- $t The gentleman pirate and Blackbeard -- $t Fading away -- $t Epilogue: "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" 650 0 $a Pirates $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 650 0 $a Hijacking of ships $x History. 941 $a 2 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20231108010321.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220426011540.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3B1212C6C52611EC906460AF4BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search