The Ebk Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in TheM.E. Sharpe This introductory survey to maritime predation in the Americas from the age of Columbus to the reign of the Spanish king Philip V includes piracy, privateering (state-sponsored sea-robbery), and genuine warfare carried out by professional navies. |
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Contrabanding and the Treaty of CateauCambrésis | 28 |
Smugglers Pirates and Privateers | 33 |
West Country Slave Traders | 34 |
San Juan de Ulúa and Aftermath | 37 |
Drake and Elizabethan Piracy | 40 |
Buccaneers as Loggers and Privateers | 125 |
Buccaneers in the South Sea | 131 |
Pirate Captain of Last Resort | 134 |
A Second Pirate Cycle in the South Sea | 142 |
Grogniet and Guayaquil 1687 | 151 |
Captain Franco Shipwrecks and Contraband | 154 |
The Last Buccaneers and Pirate Suppression | 164 |
The Buccaneer Denouement | 165 |
Elizabethan Privateers | 49 |
From the Low Countries to the High Seas | 62 |
Calvinism and Competition at Sea | 63 |
Salt and Sovereignty in the Caribbean | 64 |
Piet Heyn and the Dutch West India Company | 67 |
Dutch Intruders in the Pacific | 72 |
The SeventeenthCentury Caribbean Buccaneers | 96 |
Renegades and Runaways on Hispaniola and Tortuga | 97 |
Pirate Haven | 102 |
Henry Morgan and the Treaty of Madrid | 110 |
Henry Avery and Captain Kidd | 172 |
Treasure Wrecks and the AngloAmerican Freebooters | 181 |
Conclusions | 198 |
Table of Early Modern Pirates and Contemporary European Monarchs | 203 |
Notes | 205 |
Glossary of Terms | 213 |
Select Bibliography | 217 |
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Términos y frases comunes
African American waters Ann Bonny apparently Atlantic attack Audiencia Avery Bartholomew Sharp booty Bradley Brazil buccaneers Callao Campeche Cape Captain captives captured Caribbean Cartagena coast colonial command contraband crew crewmembers cruised Cuba defense Dutch early modern East Elizabethan enemies England English European expedition Exquemelin filibusters fleet followed force Francis Drake French corsairs Galley gold governor Grogniet Guayaquil guns Havana Hawkins Hispaniola Ibid island Jamaica John Juan Fernández Juan Fernández Islands Kidd land Lima London Lure of Peru Manila galleon merchant Morgan Myngs Native Americans navy officials Paita Panama Peruvian pesos Petit Goâve Philip piracy pirates Port Royal Portobelo Portuguese privateers prize Puerto Quito raids ransom Riohacha sack sailed San Juan Santo Domingo settlements seventeenth century silver slaves soon South Sea Spain Spanish Spanish Caribbean Spanish ships Speilbergen Straits of Magellan Tierra Firme took Tortuga town trade treasure Valdivia vessels voyage West Indies William William Kidd
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