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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Hanna, Mark G., 1974- Pirate nests and the rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 (DLC) 2015022645 (OCoLC)892879332 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark G Hanna |
ISBN: | 9781469617961 146961796X 9781469617954 1469617951 |
OCLC Number: | 933251257 |
Notes: | "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 448 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Contents: | Introduction: William Penn's piratical society -- The Elizabethan West Country: nursery for English seamen ... and pirates, 1570-1603 -- Piratical colonization, 1603-1655 -- Contesting Jamaica's future, 1655-1688 -- Chapter 4. South Sea pirates sail north, 1674-1688 -- The rise of the Red Sea pirates, 1688-1696 -- The spirit of 1696: initiating imperial revolution -- Setting up for themselves, 1697-1701 -- George Larkin's tour, 1701-1703 -- Captain Quelch's warning: the transformation of pirate nests, 1704-1713 -- "Abandon'd wretches": rethinking the war on pirates, 1713-1740 -- Conclusion: Piratical societies: trends and lessons. |
Responsibility: | by Mark G. Hanna. |
Abstract:
Analysing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s.
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