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Buccaneers of the Caribbean : How Piracy Forged an Empire / Jon Latimer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674054172
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.9/03 22
LOC classification:
  • F2161 .L38 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. A New World -- 2. Tobacco and Salt -- 3. Piet Hein -- 4. Brethren of the Coast -- 5. Sugar and Slaves -- 6. The Western Design -- 7. Buccaneer Islands -- 8. First Admiral -- 9. Portobelo -- 10. Maracaibo -- 11. Panama -- 12. French Service -- 13. Suppression -- 14. The End of the Buccaneers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: During the seventeenth century, sea raiders known as buccaneers controlled the Caribbean. Buccaneers were not pirates but privateers, licensed to attack the Spanish by the governments of England, France, and Holland. Jon Latimer charts the exploits of these men who followed few rules as they forged new empires. From the crash of gunfire to the billowing sail on the horizon, Latimer brilliantly evokes the dramatic age of the buccaneers.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. A New World -- 2. Tobacco and Salt -- 3. Piet Hein -- 4. Brethren of the Coast -- 5. Sugar and Slaves -- 6. The Western Design -- 7. Buccaneer Islands -- 8. First Admiral -- 9. Portobelo -- 10. Maracaibo -- 11. Panama -- 12. French Service -- 13. Suppression -- 14. The End of the Buccaneers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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During the seventeenth century, sea raiders known as buccaneers controlled the Caribbean. Buccaneers were not pirates but privateers, licensed to attack the Spanish by the governments of England, France, and Holland. Jon Latimer charts the exploits of these men who followed few rules as they forged new empires. From the crash of gunfire to the billowing sail on the horizon, Latimer brilliantly evokes the dramatic age of the buccaneers.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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