Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750
- ISBN-10
- 0765602571
- ISBN-13
- 9780765602572
- Series
- Pillaging the Empire
- Category
- America
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-01-01
- Publisher
- M E Sharpe Incorporated
- Author
- Kris E. Lane
Description
"Kris Lane weaves a tale of pirate activities in the Americas and of Spanish responses to those activities that reveals aspects of pirate life and culture not usually addressed in the standard histories of Latin America. He demythologizes the pirates of popular culture and places them in their broader historical context in which their activities are seen as more pecuniary than nationalistic. Lane presents a concise narrative of the seaborne attackers of Spain's colonial empire, and, to a much lesser extent, Portugal's. The book's claim to originality and to revisionism is that it presents a concise overview of piracy in American waters during the early modern period--including considerable discussion of the often overlooked piracy in the Pacific"--A review on H-Net.
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