Bibliograph

Pillaging the empire, piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750, Kris E. Lane

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Pillaging the empire, piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750, Kris E. Lane

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pillaging the empire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

37903443

Responsibility statement

Kris E. Lane

Series statement

Latin American realities

Sub title

piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750

Summary

"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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Pillaging

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