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Contents |
Veterans in blood and murder : the mutiny aboard the Polly and the trial of Joseph Andrews (1766, 1769) -- "All Tory by God" : mutiny aboard the St. Louis -- "A heart hard enough to kill a man" : the Eliza mutiny and the trial of ¿three foreigners¿ (1799-1800) -- "The most abject slavery" : the United States and the Barbary pirates (1793-1804) -- "A horrible crime to think upon" : mutiny on the George Washington -- "The greatest villains that ever blackened the human character" : the privateers of the Gulf and Caribbean (1814-1821) -- "They took to their heels" : Kearny's enterprise at Cape Antonio (1821-1822) -- "Her red flag [was] nailed to the mast" : the campaign against piracy in the Gulf and Caribbean (1822-1825) -- "No evidence of a contrite heart" : the Vineyard mutiny and the piracy confessions of Charles Gibbs (1830-1831) -- "Demons in the shape of men" : the taking of the Mexican and its aftermath (1832-1835). |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 2011040270 |
ISBN | 9781845194765 |
ISBN | 1845194764 (pbk. : alk. paper) |