Download or read book The grand pyrate or The life and death of capt G Cusack the great sea robber written by George Cusack (pirate.) and published by . This book was released on 1676 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grand Pyrate Or the Life and Death of Capt George Cusack the Great Sea robber With an Accompt of All His Notorious Robberies Both at Sea and Land Together with His Tryal Condemnation and Execution Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1676 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buccaneers and Privateers written by Richard Frohock and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe. Seeking to disrupt Spain’s nearly unchecked empire-building and siphon off some of their wealth, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British adventurers—both legitimate and illegitimate—led numerous expeditions into the Caribbean and the Pacific. Many voyagers wrote accounts of their exploits, captivating readers with their tales of exotic places, shocking hardships and cruelties, and daring engagements with national enemies. Widely distributed and read, buccaneering and privateering narratives contributed significantly to England’s imaginative, literary rendering of the Americas in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and they provided a venue for public dialogue about sea rovers and their position within empire. This book takes as its subject the literary and rhetorical construction of voyagers and their histories, and by extension, the representation of English imperialism in popular sea-voyage narratives of the period.
Download or read book The Pirate Myth written by Amedeo Policante and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the pirate is at once spectral and ubiquitous. It haunts the imagination of international legal scholars, diplomats and statesmen involved in the war on terror. It returns in the headlines of international newspapers as an untimely ‘security threat’. It materializes on the most provincial cinematic screen and the most acclaimed works of fiction. It casts its shadow over the liquid spatiality of the Net, where cyber-activists, file-sharers and a large part of the global youth are condemned as pirates, often embracing that definition with pride rather than resentment. Today, the pirate remains a powerful political icon, embodying at once the persistent nightmare of an anomic wilderness at the fringe of civilization, and the fantasy of a possible anarchic freedom beyond the rigid norms of the state and of the market. And yet, what are the origins of this persistent ‘pirate myth’ in the Western political imagination? Can we trace the historical trajectory that has charged this ambiguous figure with the emotional, political and imaginary tensions that continue to characterize it? What can we learn from the history of piracy and the ways in which it intertwines with the history of imperialism and international trade? Drawing on international law, political theory, and popular literature, The Pirate Myth offers an authoritative genealogy of this immortal political and cultural icon, showing that the history of piracy – the different ways in which pirates have been used, outlawed and suppressed by the major global powers, but also fantasized, imagined and romanticised by popular culture – can shed unexpected light on the different forms of violence that remain at the basis of our contemporary global order.
Download or read book Women and English Piracy 1540 1720 written by John C. Appleby and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piracy was one of the most gendered criminal activities during the early modern period. As a form of maritime enterprise and organized criminality, it attracted thousands of male recruits whose venturing acquired a global dimension as piratical activity spread across the oceans and seas of the world. At the same time, piracy affected the lives of women in varied ways. Adopting a fresh approach to the subject, this study explores the relationships and contacts between women and pirates during a prolonged period of intense and shifting enterprise. Drawing on a wide body of evidence and based on English and Anglo-American patterns of activity, it argues that the support of female receivers and maintainers was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the early seventeenth century. The emergence of long-distance and globalized predation had far reaching consequences for female agency. Within colonial America, women continued to play a role in networks of support for mixed groups of pirates and sea rovers; at the same time, such groups of predators established contacts with women of varied backgrounds in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. As such, female agency formed part of the economic and social infrastructure which supported maritime enterprise of contested legality. But it co-existed with the victimisation of women by pirates, including the Barbary corsairs. As this study demonstrates, the interplay between agency and victimhood was manifest in a campaign of petitioning which challenged male perceptions of women's status as victims. Against this background, the book also examines the role of a small number of women pirates, including the lives of Mary Read and Ann Bonny, while addressing the broader issue of limited female recruitment into piracy. JOHN C. APPLEBY is Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University.
Download or read book Source Books on American History written by L. C. Harper and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book prices Current written by John Herbert Slater and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pirates Code written by Rebecca Simon and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall captive to the code—the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate’s life. Pirates have long captured our imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches, and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was a risky, sometimes deadly occupation, and strict orders were essential for everyone’s survival. These “Laws” were sets of rules that determined everything from how much each pirate earned from their plunder to compensation for injuries, punishments, and even the entertainment allowed on ships. These rules became known as the “Pirates’ Code,” which all pirates had to publicly swear by. Using primary sources like eyewitness accounts, trial proceedings, and maritime logs, this book explains how each one of the pirate codes was the key to pirates’ success in battle, on sea, and on land.
Download or read book Ireland s Pirate Trail written by Des Ekin and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary ducats and silver pieces of eight. Des Ekin embarks on a roadtrip around the entire coast of Ireland, in search of our piratical heritage, uncovering an amazing history of swashbuckling bandits, both Irish-born and imported. Ireland's Pirate Trail tells stories of freebooters and pirates from every corner of our coast over a thousand years, including famous pirates like Anne Bonny and William Lamport, who set off to ply their trade in the Caribbean. Ekin also debunks many myths about our most well-known sea warrior, Granuaile, the 'Pirate Queen' of Mayo. Thoroughly researched and beautifully told. Filled with exciting untold stories.
Download or read book Notes and Queries Number 203 September 17 1853 written by Various and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue written by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Caxton Head Catalogue written by James Tregaskis (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare Curious and Useful Books Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Invention of Printing and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Pirates and Society 1680 1730 written by Margarette Lincoln and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards them changed with Britain’s growing imperial power, exploring the interface between political ambition and personal greed, between civil liberties and the power of the state. It throws light on contemporary ideals of leadership and masculinity - some pirate voyages qualifying as feats of seamanship and endurance. Unusually, it also gives insights into the domestic life of pirates and investigates the experiences of women whose husbands turned pirate or were captured for piracy. Pirate voyages contributed to British understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and different peoples in remote parts of the world. This knowledge advanced imperial expansion and British control of trade routes, which helps to explain why contemporary attitudes towards piracy were often ambivalent. This is an engaging study of vested interests and conflicting ideologies. It offers comparisons with our experience of piracy today and shows how the historic representation of pirate behaviour can illuminate other modern preoccupations, including gang culture.
