Enemies of all : the rise and fall of the golden age of piracy /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Blakemore, Richard, author.
Edition:	First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Imprint:	New York : Pegasus Books, 2024. ©2024
Description:	xvi, 316 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Piracy -- History. Pirates -- History. Buccaneers -- History. Informational works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13509788

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	1639366334 9781639366330
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined by one historical moment: the period from the 1660s to the 1730s, the so-called 'golden age of piracy.' A groundbreaking history of pirates, Enemies of all combines narrative adventure with deeply researched analysis, engrossing readers in the rise of piracy in the later seventeenth century, the debates about piracy in contemporary law and popular media, as well as the imperial efforts to suppress piracy in the early eighteenth century. The Caribbean and American colonies of Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands-where piracy surged across these decades-are the main theater for Enemies of all, but this is a global story. Evoking London, Paris, and Amsterdam, Curȧao, Port Royal, Tortuga, and Charleston, the narrative takes readers, too, from Ireland and the Mediterranean to Madagascar and India, from the Arabian Gulf to the Pacific Ocean. Familiar characters like Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, Bonny and Read, Henry Every, and Captain Kidd all feature here, but so too will the less well-known figures from the history of piracy, their crew-members, shipmates, and their confederates ashore; the men and women whose transatlantic lives were bound up with the rise and fall of piracy."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Maps
Part I. Buccaneers
1. Beyond the Line
2. Brethren of the Coast
3. All the Rogues in these Seas
4. Hazard of Battle
5. Jamaica Discipline
6. An Honourable Crime
7. A Privateer Faction
Part II. Turning Tides
8. A Retchless Crue
9. Great and Hard Enterprises
10. A Piratical and Ungoverned People
11. Men of Desperate Fortunes
12. Hang Them Up
Part III. Black Flag
13. Cruisers and Convoys
14. Upon the Account
15. The Choice of the Pyrates
16. Utmost Fury
17. We Are of the Sea
Afterword
Acknowledgements and Sources
Further Reading
Index

Enemies of all : the rise and fall of the golden age of piracy /

Similar Items