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James E. Wadsworth

Global Piracy

A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry

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Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it: both the pirates or privateers themselves and their victims.The book allows us to confront our stereotypes by giving us access to real pirates in a wide range of historical periods and global regions, from ancient Greece to modern day Nigeria, unfilter… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-350-05821-7
  • EAN: 9781350058217
  • Produktnummer: 29697982
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 6'332 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 30 bw illus

Über den Autor


James E. Wadsworth is Professor of History at Stonehill College, USA. He is the author of Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco Brazil (2007), In Defence of the Faith: Joaquim Marques de Araújo, A Brazilian Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline (2013), Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents (2016), and The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts: James Richards and His Day Book, 1692-1711 (2017).

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