Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Abbreviations Commonly Used in Notes 7
4. List of Illustrations 9
5. Introduction 11
6. Section I Jurisdiction
7. 1. Local Maritime Jurisdiction in the Early English Caribbean 31
8. 2. Primitive, Peregrinate, Piratical : Framing Southeast Asian Sea-Nomads in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Discourse and Imperial Practice 57
9. Section II Practices
10. 3. Scots, Castilians, and Other Enemies: Piracy in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World 93
11. 4. Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728 121
12. 5. Pirate Encounters and Perceptions of Southern-Netherlandish Sailors on the North Sea and the Indian Ocean, 1704–1781 151
13. Section III Representations
14. 6. “A Fellow! I think, in all Respects, worthy your Esteem and Favour”: Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724–1734 175
15. 7. Henry Glasby: Atypical Pirate or a Typical Pirate? 201
16. 8. “Our Affairs with the Pyratical States” : The United States and the Barbary Crisis, 1784–1797 227
17. Afterword 249
18. Bibilography 257
19. Index 283