Pillaging the Empire (2nd Ed.) Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
Auteurs : Lane Kris E, Lane Kris, Levine Robert M.
Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world?s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire building.
This second edition of Pillaging the Empire has been revised and expanded to incorporate the latest scholarship on piracy, maritime law, and early modern state formation. With a new chapter on piracy in East and Southeast Asia, Lane considers piracy as a global phenomenon. Filled with colorful details and stories of individual pirates from Francis Drake to the women pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read, this engaging narrative will be of interest to all those studying the history of Latin America, the Atlantic world, and the global empires of the early modern era.
List of Tables, Maps, and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Preface for Second Edition
A Chronology of Early Modern Piracy in the Americas
Introduction
1 Spain and the Sixteenth-Century Corsairs
2 Smugglers, Pirates, and Privateers: The Elizabethans
3 From the Low Countries to the High Seas: The Dutch Sea-Rovers
4 The Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Buccaneers
5 Buccaneers in the South Sea
6 The Last Buccaneers and Pirate Suppression
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Table of Early Modern Pirates and Contemporary European Monarchs
Appendix 2: Piracy in the South China Sea
Glossary of Terms
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Kris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American Historyat Tulane University. He is the author of Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Ageof Gunpowder Empires and Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition. He is currently writing a book on the colonial history of Potosí, Bolivia.
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Mots-clés :
french; corsairs; tierra; firme; manila; galleon; theodor; bry; chagres; river; Cape Verdes; East Indies; Indies; Catalina De Erauso; Ho Ho; King William’s War; Bartholomew Sharp; Chagres River; Malabar Pirates; Pedro De Medina; Nombre De Dios; Zheng Zhilong; Adventure Galley; French Corsairs; Van Noort; Wang Zhi; Buccaneer Captains; West India Company; Dutch Corsairs; De Cussy; La Yaguana; Early Eighteenth Century Pirate; Dutch West India Company; Indian Ocean Basin; Morgan’s Raid