Pillaging the empire : piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
[1998]
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Series: | Latin American realities.
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Table of Contents:
- Spain and the sixteenth-century corsairs
- Brothers Barbarossa and the Barbary Coast corsairs
- Jambe de Bois and the first Caribbean corsairs
- Contrabanding and the Treaty of Cateau-Cambreśis
- Smugglers, pirates, and privateers: the Elizabethans
- West country slave traders
- San Juan de Uluá and aftermath
- Drake and Elizabethan piracy
- Elizabethan privateers
- From the Low Countries to the high seas: the Dutch sea-rovers
- Calvinism and competition at sea
- Salt and sovereignty in the Caribbean
- Piet Heyn and the Dutch West India Company
- Dutch intruders in the Pacific
- Seventeenth-century Caribbean buccaneers
- Renegrades and runaways on Hispaniola and Tortuga
- Port Royal, Jamaica: pirate haven
- Henry Morgan and the Treaty of Madrid
- Buccaneers as loggers and privateers
- Buccaneers in the South Sea
- John Narborough and the charlatan
- Bartholomew Sharp: pirate captain of last resort
- Second pirate cycle in the South Sea
- Grogniet and Guayaquil, 1687
- Captain Franco, shipwrecks, and contraband
- Last buccaneers and pirate suppression
- Buccaneer denouement
- Henry Avery and Captain Kidd
- Treasure wrecks and the Anglo-American freebooters
- Table of early modern pirates and contemporary European monarchs.