Pillaging the Empire - Kris E Lane, Kris Lane, Robert M. Levine

Pillaging the Empire

Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
Buch | Hardcover
252 Seiten
2015 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7656-3841-0 (ISBN)
189,95 inkl. MwSt
Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire building.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.8.2015
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white; 22 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 498 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-7656-3841-X / 076563841X
ISBN-13 978-0-7656-3841-0 / 9780765638410
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