Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime

Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime
ISBN-10
1783270187
ISBN-13
9781783270187
Category
History
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2015-04-16
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Author
John C. Appleby

Description

Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the early seventeenth century. The emergence of long-distance and globalized predation had far reaching consequences for female agency.

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