The Golden Age of Piracy : The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates / edited by David Head.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Head, David (Historian), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piracy--Caribbean Area--History.

Piracy.

Piracy--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Pirates--History--18th century.

Pirates.

Pirates--History--17th century.

Caribbean Area--History--18th century.

Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area--History--17th century.

Atlantic Ocean Region--History--18th century.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Atlantic Ocean Region--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2018.

Summary:

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 when 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. Contributors: Douglas R. Burgess, Guy Chet, John A. Coakley, Carolyn Eastman, Adam Jortner, Peter T. Leeson, Margarette Lincoln, Virginia W. Lunsford, Kevin P. McDonald, Carla Gardina Pestana, Matthew Taylor Raffety, and David Wilson.

Contents:

Why Atlantic piracy? / Carla Gardina Pestana

Jamaica's private seafarers : politics and violence in a seventeenth-century English colony / John A. Coakley

"Sailors from the woods" : logwood cutting and the spectrum of piracy / Kevin P. McDonald

Trial and error : piracy trials in England and its colonies, 1696-1723 / Douglas R. Burgess

Protecting trade by suppressing pirates : British colonial and metropolitan responses to Atlantic piracy, 1716-1726 / David Wilson

The persistence of piracy in the British Atlantic / Guy Chet

A model of piracy : the buccaneers of the seventeenth-century Caribbean / Virginia W. Lunsford

The economic way of thinking about pirates / Peter T. Leeson

Henry Every and the creation of the pirate myth in early modern Britain / Margarette Lincoln

"Blood and lust" : masculinity and sexuality in illustrated print portrayals of early pirates of the Caribbean / Carolyn Eastman

A woman is to blame : gender and the literature of antebellum pirate confessions / Matthew Taylor Raffety

Pirate ghosts and buried treasure : hunting for gold in the new American republic / Adam Jortner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8203-5326-4

0-8203-5327-2

OCLC:

1112670840