Jowitt, Claire
Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550–1650
Part I. Piracy? Some Definitions
1. Introduction: Pirates? The Politics of Plunder, 1550–1650
Claire Jowitt
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Christopher Harding
Part II. Perspectives on Piracy
3. The Problem of Piracy in Ireland, 1570–1630
John C. Appleby
4. Piracy and Captivity in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Perspective from Barbary
Nabil Matar
5. Crusading Piracy? The Curious Case of the Spanish in the Channel, 1590–95
Matthew Dimmock
6. Acting Pirates: Converting
Mark Hutchings
7. ‘We are not pirates’: Piracy and Navigation in
Bernhard Klein
8. Virolet and Martia the Pirate’s Daughter: Gender and Genre in Fletcher and Massinger’s
Lucy Munro
Part III. Pirate Afterlives
9. Sir Francis Drake’s Ghost: Piracy, Cultural Memory, and Spectral Nationhood
Mark Netzloff
10. Scaffold Performances: The Politics of Pirate Execution
Claire Jowitt
11. Of Pirates, Slaves, and Diplomats: Anglo-American Writing about the Maghrib in the Age of Empire
Gerald Maclean
Keywords: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Literary Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Early Modern Europe, Modern History
- Editor
- Jowitt, Claire
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Early Modern Literature in History
- Page amount
- 257 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230627642
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-28093-3