Pillaging the Empire
Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
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…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Lane, Kris / Levine, Robert M.
- ISBN: 978-1-317-52446-5
- EAN: 9781317524465
- Produktnummer: 19571777
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 22 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
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.
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