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Pillaging the empire, global piracy on the high seas, 1500-1750, Kris Lane

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Pillaging the empire, global piracy on the high seas, 1500-1750, Kris Lane
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Pillaging the empire
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Kris Lane
Sub title
global piracy on the high seas, 1500-1750
Table Of Contents
A chronology of early modern piracy -- Spain and the sixteenth-century corsairs -- Smugglers, pirates, and privateers : the Elizabethans -- From the Low Countries to the high seas : the Dutch sea-rovers -- The seventeenth-century Caribbean buccaneers -- Buccaneers in the South Sea -- Pirates, merchants, and conquistadors in the Indian Ocean and China Seas -- The last buccaneers and pirate suppression -- Appendix : Early modern pirates and contemporary European monarchs -- Glossary of terms
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