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The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
The Golden Age of Piracy The Rise Fall and Enduring Popularity of Pirates Author:David Head (Editor) 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 wh... more »en 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.
The Golden Age of Piracy also delves into the enduring status of pirates as pop culture icons. Audiences have devoured stories about cutthroats such as Blackbeard and Henry Morgan from the time that pirates sailed the sea. By looking at the ideas of gender and sexuality surrounding pirate stories, the fad for hunting pirate treasure, and the construction of pirate myths, the book’s contributors tell a new story about the dangerous men, and a few dangerous women, who terrorized the high seas.
Why Atlantic piracy? by Carla Gardina Pestana --
Jamaica's private seafarers : politics and violence in a seventeenth-century English colony by John A. Coakley --
"Sailors from the woods" : logwood cutting and the spectrum of piracy by Kevin P. McDonald --
Trial and error : piracy trials in England and its colonies, 1696-1723 by Douglas R. Burgess --
Protecting trade by suppressing pirates : British colonial and metropolitan responses to Atlantic piracy, 1716-1726 by David Wilson --
The persistence of piracy in the British Atlantic by Guy Chet --
A model of piracy : the buccaneers of the seventeenth-century Caribbean by Virginia W. Lunsford --
The economic way of thinking about pirates by Peter T. Leeson --
Henry Every and the creation of the pirate myth in early modern Britain by Margarette Lincoln --
"Blood and lust" : masculinity and sexuality in illustrated print portrayals of early pirates of the Caribbean by Carolyn Eastman --
A woman is to blame : gender and the literature of antebellum pirate confessions by Matthew Taylor Raffety --
Pirate ghosts and buried treasure : hunting for gold in the new American republic by Adam Jortner.« less