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Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the
support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the
British Isles at least until the early seventeenth century. The
emergence of long-distance and globalized predation had far
reaching consequences for female agency. Piracy was one of the most
gendered criminal activities during the early modern period. As a
form of maritime enterprise and organized criminality, it attracted
thousands of male recruits whose venturing acquired a global
dimension as piratical activity spread across the oceans and seas
of the world. At the same time, piracy affected the lives of women
in varied ways. Adopting a fresh approach to the subject, this
study explores the relationships and contacts between women and
pirates during a prolonged period of intense and shifting
enterprise. Drawing on a wide body of evidence and based on English
and Anglo-American patterns of activity, it argues that the support
of female receivers and maintainers was vital to the persistence of
piracy around the British Isles at least until the early
seventeenth century. The emergence of long-distance and globalized
predation had far reaching consequences for female agency. Within
colonial America, women continued to play a role in networks of
support for mixed groups of pirates and sea rovers; at the same
time, such groups of predators established contacts with women of
varied backgrounds in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. As such,
female agency formed part of the economic and social infrastructure
which supported maritime enterprise of contested legality. But it
co-existed with the victimisation of women bypirates, including the
Barbary corsairs. As this study demonstrates, the interplay between
agency and victimhood was manifest in a campaign of petitioning
which challenged male perceptions of women's status as victims.
Against this background, the book also examines the role of a small
number of women pirates, including the lives of Mary Read and Ann
Bonny, while addressing the broader issue of limited female
recruitment into piracy. JOHN C. APPLEBY is Senior Lecturer in
History at Liverpool Hope University.
Offers insight, using the example of the Chesapeake Bay fur trade,
into how the different elements of transatlantic trade in the
seventeenth century fitted together. This book explores the
development of the fur trade in Chesapeake Bay during the
seventeenth century, and the wide-ranging links that were formed in
a new and extensive transatlantic chain of supply and consumption.
It considers changing fashion in England, the growing demand for
fur, at a time when the Russian fur trade was in decline, examines
native North Americans and their trading and other exchanges with
colonists, and explores the nature of colonial society, including
the commercial ambitions of a varied range of investors. As such,
it outlines the intense rivalry which existed between different
colonies and colonial interests. Although the book argues that fur
never supplanted tobacco as the region's principal export, noting
that the trade declined as new, more profitable sources of supply
were opened up, nevertheless the case of the Chesapeake fur trade
provides an excellent example of how different elements in a new
transatlantic enterprise fitted together and had a profound impact
on each other.
With some notable exceptions, the subject of outlawry in medieval
and early-modern English history has attracted relatively little
scholarly attention. This volume helps to address this significant
gap in scholarship, and encourage further study of the subject, by
presenting a series of new studies, based on original research,
that address significant features of outlawry and criminality over
an extensive period of time. The volume casts important light on,
and raises provocative questions about, the definition, ambiguity,
variety, causes, function, adaptability, impact and representation
of outlawry during this period. It also helps to illuminate social
and governmental attitudes and responses to outlawry and
criminality, which involved the interests of both church and state.
From different perspectives, the contributions to the volume
address the complex relationships between outlaws, the societies in
which they lived, the law and secular and ecclesiastical
authorities, and, in doing so, reveal much about the strengths and
limitations of the developing state in England. In terms of its
breadth and the compelling interest of its subject matter, the
volume will appeal to a wide audience of social, legal, political
and cultural historians.
A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at
sea in the early modern period. Maritime social history is a
relatively young and fertile field, with many new research findings
being discovered on a wide range of aspects of the subject. This
book, together with its companion volume The Social History of
English Seamen, 1485-1649 (The Boydell Press, 2011), pulls together
and makes accessible this large body of research work. Subjects
covered include life at sea in different parts of the period for
both officers and seamen, in both the navy and in merchant ships;
piracy and privateering; health, health care and disability;
seamen's food; homosexuality afloat; and the role of women at sea
and on land. Written by leading experts in their field, the
volumesoffer a nuanced portrait of seafarers' existence as well as
an overview of the current state of the historiography. CHERYL A.
FURY is Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick
(Saint John campus) and a Fellow of the Gregg Centre for War and
Society. Contributors: J.D. ALSOP, JOHN APPLEBY, JEREMY BLACK, B.
R. BURG, BERNARD CAPP, PETER EARLE, CHERYL A. FURY, MARGARETTE
LINCOLN, DAVID MCLEAN, N. A. M. RODGER, DAVID STARKEY
Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island,
nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall's
often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent
maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western
approaches-jutting out into the Atlantic-has given this history a
global impact. It is perhaps surprising then, that, despite the
central place of the sea in Cornwall's history, there has not yet
been a full maritime history of Cornwall. The Maritime History of
Cornwall sets out to fill this gap, exploring the rich and complex
maritime inheritance of this unique peninsula. In a beautifully
illustrated volume, individually commissioned contributions from
distinguished historians elaborate on the importance of different
periods, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The
Maritime History of Cornwall is a significant addition to the
literature of international maritime history and is indispensable
to those with an interest in Cornwall past and present. Winner of
the Holyer an Gof Non-Fiction Award 2015.
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