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Global piracy : a documentary history of seaborne banditry / James E. Wadsworth.

Author/creator Wadsworth, James E. (James Edgar), 1909-1995 author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Copyright Notice ©2019
Descriptionxii, 328 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Portion of title Documentary history of seaborne banditry
Contents 1. Enemies of all nations -- 2. Bandits of the wine dark sea: piracy in the classical world -- 3. Vikings: the scourge from the North -- 4. English sea dogs and the pillaging of empire -- 5. Dwarf pirates: pillaging the Korean and Chinese coasts -- 6. Dutch sea beggars and the business of piracy -- 7. Brethren of the coast: Caribbean buccaneers -- 8. Fishers of men: piracy and state formation in Southeast Asia -- 9. 'Our sea': corsairs of the Mediterranean -- 10. Beneath the Jolly Roger: an age of chaos, an age of gold -- 11. Maritime marginals: piracy in late Imperial China -- 12. Community of Thieves: piracy in the Western Indian Ocean.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN135005819X (hardback)
ISBN9781350058194 (hardback)
ISBN9781350058187 (paperback)
ISBN1350058181 (paperback)

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