"Each of the twelve authors deftly plumb the depths of documentary
sources, literary analyses, personal observations, biographical and
historical accounts to improve vastly on the seemingly
two-dimensional nature of the pirate"
--"The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for
Maritime History"
"With this collection, those swashbuckling heroes, or villains,
ranging the wide seas in search of pillage and plunder, become
individuals and groups situated firmly within their own geographic,
political, economic, and historical contexts."
--"Journal of Folklore Research"
The romantic fiction of pirates as swashbuckling marauders
terrorizing the high seas has long eclipsed historical fact.
Bandits at Sea offers a long-overdue corrective to the mythology
and the mystique which has plagued the study of pirates and served
to deny them their rightful legitimacy as subjects of
investigation.
With essays by the foremost scholars on these countercultural
"social bandits"as Lingua Franca recently dubbed themthis
collection examines various aspects of the phenomenon in the three
main areas where it occurred: the Caribbean/Atlantic, the
Mediterranean, and East Asia. We come to understand who pirates
were, as well as the socio-economic contexts under which they
developed and flourished.
Comparisons between various types of piracy illustrate
differences in practice and purpose between pirates of different
areas; social histories, including examinations of women pirates
and their historical significance and circumstances, offer similar
insight into the personal lives of pirates from diverse regions.
Far from serving as dens of thieves, pirate ships were often
highlyregulated microcosms of democracy. The crews of pirate
vessels knew that majority rule, racial equality and equitable
division of spoils were crucial for their survival, marking them as
significantly more liberal than national governments.
Scholars, students and a general audience ever intrigued by
talesand now truthsof piracy on the high seas will welcome Bandits
at Sea.
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