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Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world's seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire building.
This second edition of Pillaging the Empire has been revised and expanded to incorporate the latest scholarship on piracy, maritime law, and early modern state formation. With a new chapter on piracy in East and Southeast Asia, Lane considers piracy as a global phenomenon. Filled with colorful details and stories of individual pirates from Francis Drake to the women pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read, this engaging narrative will be of interest to all those studying the history of Latin America, the Atlantic world, and the global empires of the early modern era.
Contents
List of Tables, Maps, and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Preface for Second Edition
A Chronology of Early Modern Piracy in the Americas
Introduction
1 Spain and the Sixteenth-Century Corsairs
2 Smugglers, Pirates, and Privateers: The Elizabethans
3 From the Low Countries to the High Seas: The Dutch Sea-Rovers
4 The Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Buccaneers
5 Buccaneers in the South Sea
6 The Last Buccaneers and Pirate Suppression
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Table of Early Modern Pirates and Contemporary European Monarchs
Appendix 2: Piracy in the South China Sea
Glossary of Terms
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
