Global Piracy - A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry Wadsworth James E. Stonehill College USAPaperback softback
Global Piracy - A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry Wadsworth James E. Stonehill College USAPaperback softback Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the…
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Global Piracy - A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry Wadsworth James E. Stonehill College USAPaperback softback
Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it: both the pirates or privateers themselves and their victims.The book allows us to confront our stereotypes by giving us access to "real" pirates in a wide range of historical periods and global regions, from ancient Greece to modern day Nigeria, unfiltered as much as possible by authorial voice or interpretation. In Global Piracy, James E.
Global Piracy seeks neither to romanticize nor vilify pirates, but simply to understand them in the context of their times and the broader world they inhabited.