Useful Remarks, an Essay Upon Remarkables in the Way of Wicked Men
Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1723
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1723
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Author : Gregory N. Flemming
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611687802
The astonishing true story of a young sailor's ordeal during the golden age of piracy
Author : Matthew Norton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0226823105
A sociological investigation into maritime state power told through an exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy. Early in the seventeenth-century boom of seafaring, piracy allowed many enterprising and lawless men to make fortunes on the high seas, due in no small part to the lack of policing by the British crown. But as the British empire grew from being a collection of far-flung territories into a consolidated economic and political enterprise dependent on long-distance trade, pirates increasingly became a destabilizing threat. This development is traced by sociologist Matthew Norton in The Punishment of Pirates, taking the reader on an exciting journey through the shifting legal status of pirates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Norton shows us that eliminating this threat required an institutional shift: first identifying and defining piracy, and then brutally policing it. The Punishment of Pirates develops a new framework for understanding the cultural mechanisms involved in dividing, classifying, and constructing institutional order by tracing the transformation of piracy from a situation of cultivated ambiguity to a criminal category with violently patrolled boundaries—ending with its eradication as a systemic threat to trade in the English Empire. Replete with gun battles, executions, jailbreaks, and courtroom dramas, Norton’s book offers insights for social theorists, political scientists, and historians alike.
Author : Claudio V. Zanini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848883668
Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Crime
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Author : Mark G. Hanna
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1469617951
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns. English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on patterns of development that formed early America and the British Empire.
Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1789601967
Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations unearths the thrilling historical truth behind such fictional characters and rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to the established powers of the day.
Author : Alexandra Ganser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030436233
This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.
Author : Rallie Murray
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004398155
Our world has become inundated with images of a reality in which ‘evil’ thrives, and ‘good’ seems to be a naïve, utopian fantasy. ‘Good’ is reserved for superheroes and children’s stories, while the ‘real world’ is driven by greed, violence, and hatred. If we are so consumed with evil, then is there any point to writing about it? Perhaps the more important question is ‘why should we ever stop writing about it?’. Towards that end, this volume is intended to act as a catalyst to an ongoing destabilization of mental (philosophical) and social (political, historical) regimes of ‘evil’ in thought and practice. It is compiled with the intention of saying something new about a very old topic, as a reminder that this is an unfinished conversation which stretches back millennia and has a deeply tangible impact on the worlds within which we live today. Contributors are Peter Brian Barry, Lima Bhuiyan, Diedra L. Clay, Zachary J. Goldberg, Sophia Kanaouti, Stefanie Schnitzer Mills, Rallie Murray, Asli Tekinay and Claudio Vescia Zanini.