Pillaging the empire : piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 / Kris E. Lane.

Author/creator Lane, Kris E., 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoArmonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1998.
Descriptionxxiv, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Variant title Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750
SeriesLatin American realities
Latin American realities. ^A395416
Contents Spain and the sixteenth-century corsairs -- Brothers Barbarossa and the Barbary Coast corsairs -- Jambe de Bois and the first Caribbean corsairs -- Contrabanding and the Treaty of Cateau-Cambreśis -- Smugglers, pirates, and privateers: the Elizabethans -- West country slave traders -- San Juan de Uluá and aftermath -- Drake and Elizabethan piracy -- Elizabethan privateers -- From the Low Countries to the high seas: the Dutch sea-rovers -- Calvinism and competition at sea -- Salt and sovereignty in the Caribbean -- Piet Heyn and the Dutch West India Company -- Dutch intruders in the Pacific -- Seventeenth-century Caribbean buccaneers -- Renegrades and runaways on Hispaniola and Tortuga -- Port Royal, Jamaica: pirate haven -- Henry Morgan and the Treaty of Madrid -- Buccaneers as loggers and privateers -- Buccaneers in the South Sea -- John Narborough and the charlatan -- Bartholomew Sharp: pirate captain of last resort -- Second pirate cycle in the South Sea -- Grogniet and Guayaquil, 1687 -- Captain Franco, shipwrecks, and contraband -- Last buccaneers and pirate suppression -- Buccaneer denouement -- Henry Avery and Captain Kidd -- Treasure wrecks and the Anglo-American freebooters -- Table of early modern pirates and contemporary European monarchs.
Local noteLittle-308930--305131015221O
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index.
LCCN 97032619
ISBN0765602563 (alk. paper)
ISBN0765602571 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E18.75 .L36 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold