Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real Pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head.
The essays presented take the study of piracy, which can easily lapse into rousing, romanticized stories, to new heights o.
Twelve scholars of piracy show why Pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how Pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined.
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real Pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head