Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

ISBN-13: 9781403966926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 354 str.

Virginia Lunsford-Poe

Opis

This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth century. The young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic preeminence, and many of its seamen also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. A story almost entirely untold until now, Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: THE DUTCH SEA ROBBER DEFINED Kapers and Commissievaarders: The Dutch Privateer A 'Malicious Business': Piracy in the Dutch Republic PART II: CULTURAL UNDERPINNINGS Collective Identity, Nationalism, and the Golden Age Netherlands Piracy, the Dutch and the Seventeenth-Century Seas PART III: CONCLUSIONS Prizes and 'Excesses': The Golden Age Pirate The Dutch Freebooter in the Golden Age

O autorze

VIRGINIA LUNSFORD-POE is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy, USA. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland.