3. Connecting Seas and Epochs : George Walker and Britain’s ‘Privateers of Force,’ 1744–48

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy 11
6. Part I Political and Economic Entanglements
7. 1. Pirate Marts and Knockdown Prices : Piracy, Class, and Economics in Early Modern England 33
8. 2. Piracy and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean : The British East India Company’s Campaign against Atlantic and Angrian Maritime Predation, 1717–24 61
9. 3. Connecting Seas and Epochs : George Walker and Britain’s ‘Privateers of Force,’ 1744–48 83
10. 4. Surviving Scarcity : Reconceptualizing Tunisian Corsairing during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 103
11. Part II Pirate Mobility
12. 5. Interconnected Identities : Seventeenth-Century ‘Barbary’ Pirates, Christian Captives, and Geo-Cultural Mobility 127
13. 6. “Confinde to No Limits”: John Ward, a Renegade Life in Print 147
14. 7. “Wrestling with the Restless Sea” : Piracy, European Expansion, and the Further Beyond 169
15. 8. “Anchors Found on High Mountains” : Terraqueous Traffic and Pirate Mobility in Walter Ralegh 191
16. Part III Literary Accounts
17. 9. Setting the Stage : Transnational Piracy and the Ambiguity of Pirate Identity in the Stukeley Plays 213
18. 10. Commerce, Conflict, and Intercultural Contact : Figurations of Polyvalence in Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West, Part I 235
19. 11. From Captive to Privateer : William Rufus Chetwood’s The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (1726) 257
20. Index 275