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This second edition of Pillaging the Empire has been revised and expanded to incorporate the latest scholarship on piracy, maritime law, and early modern state formation. With a new chapter on piracy in East and Southeast Asia, Lane considers piracy as a global phenomenon. Filled with colorful details and stories of individual pirates from Francis Drake to the women pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read, this engaging narrative will be of interest to all those studying the history of Latin America, the Atlantic world, and the global empires of the early modern era.
This second edition of Pillaging the Empire has been revised and expanded to incorporate the latest scholarship on piracy, maritime law, and early modern state formation. With a new chapter on piracy in East and Southeast Asia, Lane considers piracy as a global phenomenon. Filled with colorful details and stories of individual pirates from Francis Drake to the women pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read, this engaging narrative will be of interest to all those studying the history of Latin America, the Atlantic world, and the global empires of the early modern era.
Kris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American Historyat Tulane University. He is the author of Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires and Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition. He is currently writing a book on the colonial history of Potosí, Bolivia.
List of Tables, Maps, and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Preface for Second Edition
A Chronology of Early Modern Piracy in the Americas
Introduction
1 Spain and the Sixteenth-Century Corsairs
2 Smugglers, Pirates, and Privateers: The Elizabethans
3 From the Low Countries to the High Seas: The Dutch Sea-Rovers
4 The Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Buccaneers
5 Buccaneers in the South Sea
6 The Last Buccaneers and Pirate Suppression
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Table of Early Modern Pirates and Contemporary European Monarchs
Appendix 2: Piracy in the South China Sea
Glossary of Terms
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9780765638427 |
| ISBN-10: | 0765638428 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Lane, Kris E
Lane, Kris Levine, Robert M. |
| Auflage: | 2. Auflage |
| Hersteller: | Routledge |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 229 x 152 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Kris E Lane (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.08.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,399 kg |
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