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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1. Pirates and Empire
Why Atlantic Piracy?
Jamaica’s Private Seafarers: Politics and Violence in a Seventeenth-Century English Colony
“Sailors from the Woods”: Logwood Cutting and the Spectrum of Piracy
Section 2. Suppression of Pirates
Trial and Error: Piracy Trials in England and Its Colonies, 1696–1723
Protecting Trade by Suppressing Pirates: British Colonial and Metropolitan Responses to Atlantic Piracy, 1716–1726
The Persistence of Piracy in the British Atlantic
Section 3. Modeling Piracy
A Model of Piracy: The Buccaneers of the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
The Economic Way of Thinking about Pirates
Section 4. Images of Pirates in Their Own Time and Beyond
Henry Every and the Creation of the Pirate Myth in Early Modern Britain
“Blood and Lust”: Masculinity and Sexuality in Illustrated Print Portrayals of Early Pirates of the Caribbean
A Woman Is to Blame: Gender and the Literature of Antebellum Pirate Confessions
Pirate Ghosts and Buried Treasure: Hunting for Gold in the New American Republic
Conclusion
Contributors
Index
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