The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
by
Douglas R. Burgess, Guy Chet, John A. Coakley
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...