Piracy And Privateering In The Golden Age Netherlands
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Piracy And Privateering In The Golden Age Netherlands
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Author : V. Lunsford
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-06-03
Piracy And Privateering In The Golden Age Netherlands written by V. Lunsford and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-03 with History categories.
This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading,exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until now. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.
The Frigid Golden Age
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Author : Dagomar Degroot
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-08
The Frigid Golden Age written by Dagomar Degroot and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Nature categories.
Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.
The Golden Age Of Piracy
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Author : David Head
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2018-06-15
The Golden Age Of Piracy written by David Head and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with History categories.
Twelve authors shed new light on the true history and enduring mythology of seventeenth– and eighteenth–century pirates in this anthology of scholarly essays. The twelve entries in The Golden Age of Piracy discuss why pirates thrived in the seas of the New World, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. Separating Hollywood myth from historical fact, these essays bring the real pirates of the Caribbean to life with a level of rigor and insight rarely applied to the subject. The Golden Age of Piracy also delves into the enduring status of pirates as pop culture icons. Audiences have devoured stories about cutthroats such as Blackbeard and Henry Morgan since before Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island. By looking at the ideas of gender and sexuality surrounding pirate stories, the renewed interest in hunting for pirate treasure, and the construction of pirate myths, the contributing authors tell a new story about the dangerous men, and a few dangerous women, who terrorized the high seas. Contributors: Douglas R. Burgess, Guy Chet, John A. Coakley, Carolyn Eastman, Adam Jortner, Peter T. Leeson, Margarette Lincoln, Virginia W. Lunsford, Kevin P. McDonald, Carla Gardina Pestana, Matthew Taylor Raffety, and David Wilson.
Privateering And Piracy In The Colonial Period
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Author : John Franklin Jameson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
Privateering And Piracy In The Colonial Period written by John Franklin Jameson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Pirates categories.
The Golden Age Of Piracy
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Author : David Head (Historian)
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2018
The Golden Age Of Piracy written by David Head (Historian) and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined.
British Captives From The Mediterranean To The Atlantic 1563 1760
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Author : Nabil Matar
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-06-26
British Captives From The Mediterranean To The Atlantic 1563 1760 written by Nabil Matar and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with History categories.
British Captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760 provides the first study of British captives in the North African Atlantic and Mediterranean, from the reign of Elizabeth I to George II. Based on extensive archival research in the United Kingdom, Nabil Matar furnishes the names of all captives while examining the problems that historians face in determining the numbers of early modern Britons in captivity. Matar also describes the roles which the monarchy, parliament, trading companies, and churches played (or did not play) in ransoming captives. He questions the emphasis on religious polarization in piracy and shows how much financial constraints, royal indifference, and corruption delayed the return of captives. As rivarly between Britain and France from 1688 on dominated the western Mediterranean and Atlantic, Matar concludes by showing how captives became the casus belli that justified European expansion.
Pirates And Privateers From The Low Countries C 1500 C 1810
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Author : Alex Ritsema
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-03-25
Pirates And Privateers From The Low Countries C 1500 C 1810 written by Alex Ritsema and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-25 with History categories.
In novels, cartoons and films, "the" pirate had a wooden leg, a parrot on one of his shoulders, a patch before one of his eyes and buried his treasures on remote shores or islands... This book is not about fictional pirates but about real ones but their stories are equally spectacular. Some of them were not "pirates" but "privateers" equipped with a "letter of marque", an official license to attack enemies in times of war. Among other Dutch, Frisian and Flemish freebooters, this book includes: Grutte Pier, a folk hero defending the Frisian freedom against the Hollanders around 1520; the "Sea-Beggars" and their decisive role in the War of Dutch Independence (1568-1648); the Dunkirk raiders harassing merchant vessels from Amsterdam; adventurers joining the legendary pirates of Barbary or the Caribbean. This book not only deals with the freebooters themselves but also with their victims and foes, as well as corrupt shipowners and corrupt judges of Prize Courts.
The World The Plague Made
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Author : James Belich
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-25
The World The Plague Made written by James Belich and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-25 with History categories.
A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and technology and set the stage for Europe’s global expansion. James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history’s greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe’s dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demand—and plague provided the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked by plague. A new “crew culture” of “disposable males” emerged to man the guns and galleons. Setting the rise of Western Europe in global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other peoples throughout the world.
The Terror Of The Seas
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Author : Steve Murdoch
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-07-12
The Terror Of The Seas written by Steve Murdoch and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-12 with History categories.
This book places early modern Scottish maritime warfare in its European context. Its formidably broad range of sources sheds light on many previously little known, or unknown, aspects of naval history. It also provides many valuable new perspectives on the importance of the sea to the Scots, and of the Scots to the naval history of Great Britain.
Historical Origins Of International Criminal Law
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Author : Morten Bergsmo
language : en
Publisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Historical Origins Of International Criminal Law written by Morten Bergsmo and has been published by Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Law categories.