The problem of piracy in the early modern world : maritime predation, empire, and the construction of authority at sea / edited by John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan and David Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coakley, John, Author.

Contributor:

Coakley, John, editor.

Kwan, C. Nathan, editor.

Wilson, David (Maritime historian), editor.

Series:

Maritime humanities, 1400-1800.

Maritime humanities, 1400-1800

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piracy--History--17th century.

Piracy.

Piracy--History--18th century.

Pirates--History--17th century.

Pirates.

Pirates--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Summary:

In the early modern period, both legal and illegal maritime predation was a common occurrence, but the expansion of European maritime empires exacerbated existing and created new problems of piracy across the globe. This collection of original case studies addresses these early modern problems in three sections: first, states' attempts to exercise jurisdiction over seafarers and their actions; second, the multiple predatory marine practices considered 'piracy'; and finally, the many representations made about piracy by states or the seafarers themselves. Across nine chapters covering regions including southeast Asia, the Atlantic archipelago, the North African states, and the Caribbean Sea, the complexities of defining and criminalizing maritime predation is explored, raising questions surrounding subjecthood, interpolity law, and the impacts of colonization on the legal and social construction of ocean, port, and coastal spaces. Seeking the meanings and motivations behind piracy, this book reveals that while European states attempted to fashion piracy into a global and homogenous phenomenon, it was largely a local and often idiosyncratic issue.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Commonly Used in Notes

Introduction

John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan, David Wilson

Section I: Jurisdiction

1. Local Maritime Jurisdiction in the Early English Caribbean

John Coakley

2. Primitive, Peregrinate, Piratical: Framing Southeast Asian Sea-Nomads in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Discourse and Imperial Practice

Martin Müller

Section II: Practices

3. Scots, Castilians, and Other Enemies: Piracy in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World

Simon Egan

4. Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728

Steven J. Pitt

5. Pirate Encounters and Perceptions of Southern-Netherlandish Sailors on the North Sea and the Indian Ocean, 1704-1781

Wim de Winter

Section III: Representations

6. "A Fellow! I think, in all Respects, worthy your Esteem and Favour": Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724-1734

Rebecca James

7. Henry Glasby: Atypical Pirate or a Typical Pirate?

James Rankine

8. "Our Affairs with the Pyratical States": The United States and the Barbary Crisis, 1784-1797

Anna Diamantouli

Afterword

Claire Jowitt

Bibilography

Index

List of Illustrations

Tables

Table 1: North American Ports, the Logwood Trade, and Employment, 1714 to 1727

Table 2. Editions of A General History of the Pyrates, 1724-1734

Maps

Map 1. Jamaica and the Caribbean Sea

Map 2. Insular Southeast Asia

Map 3. Ireland and the Surrounding Seas

Map 4. Boston Logwood Trade

Map 5. Ostend and the Indian Ocean

Map 6. Henry Glasby's Voyage

Map 7. North African Ottoman States.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

ISBN:

1-04-077724-4

1-003-70745-9

1-04-079023-2

90-485-5426-8

9781003707455

OCLC:

1429618078