1. Guy Anthony De Marco, ‘Foreword’ to Philip Gosse, The Pirate Who’s Who, expanded edn, Warped Mind Press, 2015, p. 1.
2. Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test, Picador, 2011.
3. Peter Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, Princeton University Press, 2011, p. 101.
4. Nirad Chaudhuri, ‘Reflections on the Organizing Principle of Pre-modern Trade’, in James D. Tracy, ed., The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 421–42.
5. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Beacon Press, 2013.
6. https://piratehistorypodcast.com/, Episode 1.