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A General History of the Pyrates
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2012-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780486131948 |
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Considered the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century, this fascinating history by the author of Robinson Crusoe profiles the deeds of Edward (Blackbeard) Teach, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, others.
A General History of the Pyrates
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 1999-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780486404882 |
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Considered the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century, this fascinating history by the author of Robinson Crusoe profiles the deeds of Edward (Blackbeard) Teach, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, others.
A General History of the Lives Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen Pub Nov 2020
Author | : Charles Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0712352740 |
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Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated 'A General History of the Pirates' (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the equally engrossing 'The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen' (1734) which, published here for the first time in two centuries, provides over 50 accounts of the most notorious British criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These include the famous highwayman William Davis, alias The Golden Farmer, the cross-Channel gentleman highwayman Claude du Vall, the prolific road adventurer Old Mob and the royalist carriage raider James Hind. Johnson's volumes, featuring fictional accounts based on factual sources, are significant as the forerunners of the real-life criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such early novels as Defoe's 'Moll Flanders' and Fielding's 'Jonathan Wild'. Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new edition of 'Highwaymen' not only includes the very best of these original decorative features but also presents a series of related illustrations, playbills, and portraits from the British Library collections.
Piracy
Author | : Adrian Johns |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2010-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226401201 |
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Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
Black Flags Blue Waters The Epic History of America s Most Notorious Pirates
Author | : Eric Jay Dolin |
Publsiher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781631492112 |
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With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle). Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. “Deftly blending scholarship and drama” (Richard Zacks), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Through engrossing episodes of roguish glamour and extreme brutality, Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, among them the towering Blackbeard, the ill-fated Captain Kidd, and sadistic Edward Low, who delighted in torturing his prey. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Black Flags, Blue Waters is a “tour de force history” (Michael Pierce, Midwestern Rewind) of the seafaring outlaws whose raids reflect the precarious nature of American colonial life.
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Author | : Charles Johnson |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415286794 |
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This is a print of the 1927 reissued 4th edition of A General History of the Pirates- enhanced by the Arthur L. Hayward's editorial touches.
A History of Pirates
Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publsiher | : Arcturus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2003-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781848584969 |
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The modern image of the pirate is derived from Captain Charles Johnson's accounts of the cut-throats who sailed under the Jolly Roger. It was he who gave mythical status to the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd. Using contemporary sources, Nigel Cawthorne now turns the spotlight on the reality of pirate life, revealing the truth behind the legends. It gives us an insight into the men - and women - their weapons, their ships, their unhappy victims and their hide-outs, including the capital city of the pirate 'empire', Port Royal in Jamaica - known as the 'wickedest city in the world'.
The History of Pirates
Author | : Angus Konstam |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Buccaneers |
ISBN | : 1904668070 |
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The History of Pirates traces piracy from the seas of antiquity to the New World and beyond. It is a thorough, authoritative and memorable portrait of the fascinating world of pirates. Detailed maps bear vivid testimony to the far-ranging exploits of these capricious, sometimes charismatic, and frequently bloodthirsty sea-dogs and highwaymen of the oceans.