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Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650
This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated between 1550 and 1650.
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Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650
This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated between 1550 and 1650.
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Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650

Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650

by Claire Jowitt
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Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650

by Claire Jowitt

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This book provides an insight to the cultural work involved in violence at sea in this period of maritime history. It is the first to consider how 'piracy' and representations of 'pirates' both shape and were shaped by political, social and religious debates, showing how attitudes to 'piracy' and violence at sea were debated between 1550 and 1650.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230003279
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/09/2007
Series: Early Modern Literature in History Series
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

JOHN APPLEBY Senior Lecturer in History, Liverpool Hope University College, UK
MATTHEW DIMMOCK Lecturer in English, University of Sussex, UK
CHRISTOPHER HARDING Professor of Law, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
MARK HUTCHINGS Lecturer in English, University of Reading, UK
BERNHARD KLEIN Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex, UK
GERALD MACLEAN Professor of English, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
NABIL MATAR Professor of English and Department Head of Humanities and Communication, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
LUCY MUNRO Lecturer in English, Keele University, UK
MARK NETZLOFF Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: PIRACY? SOME DEFINITIONS Introduction: Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650; C.Jowitt 'Hostis Humani Generis' - The Pirate as Outlaw in the Early Modern Law of the Sea; C.Harding PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON PIRACY The Problem of Piracy in Ireland, 1570-1630; J.Appleby Piracy and Captivity in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Perspective from Barbary; N.Matar Crusading Piracy? The Curious Case of the Spanish in the Chanel, 1590-95; M.Dimmock Acting Pirates: Converting A Christian Turned Turk ; M.Hutchings 'We are not Pirates': Piracy and Navigation in The Lusiads ; B.Klein Virolet and Martia in the Pirate's Daughter: Gender and Genre in Fletcher and Massinger's The Double Marriage ; L.Munro PART III: PIRATE AFTERLIVES Sir Francis Drake's Ghost: Piracy, Cultural Memory, and Spectral Nationhood; M.Netzloff Scaffold Performances: The Politics of Pirate Death; C.Jowitt Of Pirates, Slaves and Diplomats: Anglo-American Writing about the Maghrib in the Age of Empire; G.MacLean Select Bibliography Index
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