The golden age of piracy the rise, fall, and enduring popularity of pirates / edited by David Head.
| Other author | Head, David, (Historian) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2018. |
| Description | vi, 256 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017052790 |
| ISBN | 9780820353265 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780820353258 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |