Pillaging the empire : piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 / Kris E. Lane.
| Author/creator | Lane, Kris E., 1967- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1998. |
| Description | xxiv, 237 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 |
| Series | Latin 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 note | Little-308930--305131015221O |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index. |
| LCCN | 97032619 |
| ISBN | 0765602563 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0765602571 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E18.75 .L36 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |