Contributor
Lane, Kris E., 1967- editor.
ImprintIndianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2019]
Descriptionxxviii, 169 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note:General Introduction -- Section I: Global Piracy and European Law -- 1. Dutch Counterpoint: The Legal Opinion of Hugo Grotius (c.1603-1604) -- 2. Death to All Pirates: The Legal Opinion of Leoline Jenkins (c.1668) -- 3. The High Court of Admiralty Defines Piracy (1696) -- 4. The Weak Arm of the Law (1717) -- Questions to consider for Section I -- Section II: Atlantic Expansion and the First Global Pirates -- 5. Piracy in the Portuguese Atlantic (c.1548) -- 6. Casual Piracy in the North Atlantic (c.1556) -- 7. John Hawkins of Plymouth, Slaver and Corsair along the Spanish Main (1565-1568) -- 8. Francis Drake Attacks Nombre de Dios, Panama (1572) -- 9. Contrasting Views from Francis Drake's Famous Voyage (1577-1580) -- 10. Francis Drake to Philip II of Spain: 'Don't Call Me a Pirate!' (1586) -- 11. Francisco de Sande, "The Pirate Limahon attacks Manila" (1574) -- 12. The Pirates of India's Malabar Coast Described by Pyrard de Laval (c.1601) -- Questions to consider for Section II -- Section III: Pirates ofthe Mediterranean -- 13. Life among the Corsairs of Algiers (c.1581) -- 14. A Letter from Barbary (1630) -- 15. The Ransom Receipt of Miguel de Cervantes (1580) -- 16. Miguel de Cervantes' Captive Fantasies of the Golden Age (1615) -- 17. The Corsair Alonso de Contreras Tells His Tale (1630) -- 18. An English Diplomat Describes the Corsairs at Tripoli (c.1680) -- Questions to consider for Section III -- Section IV: The Age of Dutch Corsairs -- 19. An Encounter with Dutch Pirates in the Philippines (1600) -- 20. Catch as Catch Can: Joris van Speilbergen's Pacific Journal (1615) -- 21. Catch and Release? Catalina de Erauso and the Dutch Corsairs (1615) -- 22. Declaration of Pedro Angola, Captured by the Dutch at Puerto Rico (1626) -- 23. Spanish Notice of Diego de los Reyes a.k.a. Diego el Mulato (1635) -- 24. The English-American Meets Diego el Mulato (1637) -- Questions to consider for Section IV -- Section V: The Buccaneers -- 25. Jean de Laon on the Early Buccaneers (1654) -- 26. A Commission and Instructions for Jamaican Privateers (1662) -- 27. Buccaneers Describe a Raiding Voyage in Central America (1665) -- 28. Victims Describe the Same Attack on Granada, Nicaragua (1665) -- 29. Henry Morgan's Articles of Agreement (1669) -- 30. A Buccaneer Describes Henry Morgan's Assault on Panama (1671) -- 31. Alexandre Exquemelin Describes the Same Raid (1678) -- 32. Henry Morgan Joins the War on Freelance Raiders (1677) -- 33. A French Participant Describes the Raid on Veracruz (1683) -- 34. Spanish Subjects Describe the Raid on Veracruz (1683) -- 35. A Buccaneer Offer of Friendship after Veracruz (1683) -- Questions to consider for Section V -- Section VI: The South Sea Raiders -- 36. Pirates Capture the Rosario (1681) -- 37. Richard Arnold Tells His Tales (1686) -- Questions to consider for Section VI -- Section VII: Pirates in the Indian Ocean -- 38. To the Arabian Sea with Captain Henry Avery (1695) -- 39. An Indian view of Avery's attack on the Ganj-i Sawai (1695) -- 40. Adam Baldridge chronicles the dealings of pirates in Madagascar (1699) -- 41. The last will of a dying pirate (1698) -- Questions to consider for Section VII -- Section VIII: The golden age of piracy -- 42. Henry Bostock encounters Blackbeard (1717) -- 43. Pillaging the slave trade (1719) -- 44. A skirmish with Bartholomew Roberts (1720) -- 45. The legend of Anne Bonny and Mary Read (1720) -- 46. William Whelks tells his story (1723) -- 47. Walter Moor sets the record straight (1724) -- 48. A final display of the black flag (1726) -- Questions to consider for Section VIII.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-163)and index.
Note:This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bialuschewski present a wonderfully diverse body of primary texts on sea raiders. Drawn from a variety of sources, including the authors' own archival research and translations, these carefully curated texts cover over two hundred years (1548-1726) of global, early-modern piracy. Lane and Bialuschewski provide glosses of each document and a succinct introduction to the historical context of the period and avoid the romanticized and Anglo-centric depictions of maritime predation that often plague work on the topic.
