| Description |
xxiv, 237 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Latin American realities
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index. |
| 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-Cambresis -- Smugglers, pirates, and privateers : the Elizabethans -- West country slave traders -- San Juan de Ulua 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. |
| Subject |
Pirates -- America -- History.
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Privateering -- America -- History.
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America -- History, Naval.
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| ISBN |
0765602563 (alk. paper) |
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0765602571 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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