TY  - BOOK
AU  - Latimer,Jon
TI  - Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire 
SN  - 9780674054172
AV  - F2161 .L38 2009eb
U1  - 972.9/03 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Adventure and adventurers
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Buccaneers
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Privateering
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054172
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674054172
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674054172/original
ER  -