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Title:

The golden age of piracy : the rise, fall, and enduring popularity of pirates / edited by David Head.

Publisher:

The University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

vi, 256 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Pirates--History--17th century.
Pirates--History--18th century.
Piracy--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Piracy--Caribbean Area--History.
Atlantic Ocean Region--History--17th century.
Atlantic Ocean Region--History--18th century.
Caribbean Area--History--17th century.
Caribbean Area--History--18th century.

Other Authors:

Head, David (Historian) editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Why Atlantic piracy? / Carla Gardina Pestana -- Jamaica's private seafarers : politics and violence in a seventeenth-century English colony / John A. Coakley -- "Sailors from the woods" : logwood cutting and the spectrum of piracy / Kevin P. McDonald -- Trial and error : piracy trials in England and its colonies, 1696-1723 / Douglas R. Burgess -- Protecting trade by suppressing pirates : British colonial and metropolitan responses to Atlantic piracy, 1716-1726 / David Wilson -- The persistence of piracy in the British Atlantic / Guy Chet -- A model of piracy : the buccaneers of the seventeenth-century Caribbean / Virginia W. Lunsford -- The economic way of thinking about pirates / Peter T. Leeson -- Henry Every and the creation of the pirate myth in early modern Britain / Margarette Lincoln -- "Blood and lust" : masculinity and sexuality in illustrated print portrayals of early pirates of the Caribbean / Carolyn Eastman -- A woman is to blame : gender and the literature of antebellum pirate confessions / Matthew Taylor Raffety -- Pirate ghosts and buried treasure : hunting for gold in the new American republic / Adam Jortner.

Summary:

Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. The essays presented take the study of piracy, which can easily lapse into rousing, romanticized stories, to new heights of rigor and insight.

ISBN:

0820353256
9780820353258 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820353264
9780820353265 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2017052790

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)