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The Golden Age of Piracy - The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates (Paperback)
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The Golden Age of Piracy - The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates (Paperback)
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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. 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. The essays presented take
the study of piracy, which can easily lapse into rousing,
romanticized stories, to new heights of rigor and insight. The
Golden Age of Piracy also delves into the enduring status of
pirates as pop culture icons. Audiences have devoured stories about
cutthroats such as Blackbeard and Henry Morgan from the time that
pirates sailed the sea. By looking at the ideas of gender and
sexuality surrounding pirate stories, the fad for hunting pirate
treasure, and the construction of pirate myths, the book's
contributors tell a new story about the dangerous men, and a few
dangerous women, who terrorized the high seas.
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