Pirates : a history /

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Author / Creator:Travers, Timothy.
Imprint:Stroud, Gloucestershire : Tempus, 2007.
Description:316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, p; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7178480
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ISBN:9780752439365
0752439367
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:A world-wide history of piracy from ancient times to the present.
Other form:Online version: Travers, Timothy. Pirates. Stroud, Gloucestershire : Tempus, 2007
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Pirate World
  • 2. From Classical Piracy to the Medieval Mediterranean
  • 3. Piracy in the Northern World
  • 4. The Elizabethan Sea Rovers and the Jacobean Pirates
  • 5. Buccaneers of the Caribbean
  • 6. The Madagascar Men
  • 7. Death to the Pirates
  • 8. The Barbary Corsairs of North Africa
  • 9. Pirates of the Eastern Seas
  • 10. The Road to Modern Piracy
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Definitions
  • List of Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index