Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands
Lunsford (history, US Naval Academy) offers considerable factual information about Dutch privateering from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries, and introduces some of the first raw data on Dutch piracy during the period. But further, she explores the cultural identities that privateers and pirates maintained in the early modern Netherlands, and the special place the sea robber held in the Golden Age Republican mentality. Writing social history, she draws on popular imagery, songs and poetry, and decorative arts as well as more formal sources. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands
Lunsford (history, US Naval Academy) offers considerable factual information about Dutch privateering from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries, and introduces some of the first raw data on Dutch piracy during the period. But further, she explores the cultural identities that privateers and pirates maintained in the early modern Netherlands, and the special place the sea robber held in the Golden Age Republican mentality. Writing social history, she draws on popular imagery, songs and poetry, and decorative arts as well as more formal sources. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

by Virginia W. Lunsford
Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

by Virginia W. Lunsford

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Lunsford (history, US Naval Academy) offers considerable factual information about Dutch privateering from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries, and introduces some of the first raw data on Dutch piracy during the period. But further, she explores the cultural identities that privateers and pirates maintained in the early modern Netherlands, and the special place the sea robber held in the Golden Age Republican mentality. Writing social history, she draws on popular imagery, songs and poetry, and decorative arts as well as more formal sources. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230259560
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 06/04/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Virginia W. Lunsford is a professor of History at the United States Naval Academy.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: THE DUTCH SEA ROBBER DEFINED Kapers and Commissievaarders: The Dutch Privateer A 'Malicious Business': Piracy in the Dutch Republic PART II: CULTURAL UNDERPINNINGS Collective Identity, Nationalism, and the Golden Age Netherlands Piracy, the Dutch and the Seventeenth-Century Seas PART III: CONCLUSIONS Prizes and 'Excesses': The Golden Age Pirate The Dutch Freebooter in the Golden Age
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