Introduction. Piracy in World History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction. Piracy in World History 9
5. 2. “Publique Enemies to Mankind”: International Pirates as a Product of International Politics 35
6. 3. All at Sea: Locke’s Tyrants and the Pyrates of Political Thought 61
7. 4. The Colonial Origins of Theorizing Piracy’s Relation to Failed States 85
8. 5. The Bugis-Makassar Seafarers: Pirates or Entrepreneurs? 109
9. 6. Piracy in India’s Western Littoral Reality and Representation 129
10. 7. Holy Warriors, Rebels, and Thieves: Defining Maritime Violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean 149
11. 8. Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China 173
12. 9. Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters: Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570–1800 199
13. 10. Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis. Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought 225
14. 11. “Pirates of the Sea and the Land”: Concurrent Vietnamese and French Concepts of Piracy during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 245
15. 12. Pirate Passages in Global History: Afterword 267
16. Index 285