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British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730

 
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Pirates contributed to the British understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and remote communities. This knowledge advanced imperial expansion, which helps to explain why contemporary attitudes towards piracy were ambivalent. This book, an engaging study of vested interests and conflicting ideologies, shows how pirates were port

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This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards them changed with Britain?s growing imperial power, exploring the interface between political ambition and personal greed, between civil liberties and the power of the state. It throws light on contemporary ideals of leadership and masculinity - some pirate voyages qualifying as feats of seamanship and endurance. Unusually, it also gives insights into the domestic life of pirates and investigates the experiences of women whose husbands turned pirate or were captured for piracy. Pirate voyages contributed to British understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and different peoples in remote parts of the world. This knowledge advanced imperial expansion and British control of trade routes, which helps to explain why contemporary attitudes towards piracy were often ambivalent. This is an engaging study of vested interests and conflicting ideologies. It offers comparisons with our experience of piracy today and shows how the historic representation of pirate behaviour can illuminate other modern preoccupations, including gang culture.

'In terms of research, Lincoln employs a fairly comprehensive strategy, encompassing a variety of excellent sources including newspaper accounts, trial reports, parliamentary debates, and ballads as well as most of the leading scholarly works on the topic of British piracy...Well-chosen illustrations, with an assortment of black-and-white figures and color plates taken mainly from the rich collection of the National Maritime Museum, enhance the readability of this book. Sound scholarship, engagingly expressed, such as produced here by Lincoln, should find its mark among educators, researchers, and nonscholars alike.'


Michael F. Dove, Western University, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online


"Lincoln has been able to uncover a wide array of representations and the result is a fascinating and thought-provoking book."


Rebecca Lush, The University of Sydney, Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction: Pirate Lifestyles; Chapter 2 Punishing Miscreants: Pirates and the Metropolis; Chapter 3 Dominion of the Seas: Pirates and the Law; Chapter 4 A Growing Evil: Pirates and Commerce; Chapter 5 The Taste of the Town: Pirates and ?Polite Society?; Chapter 6 ?A Nest of Vermin?: Representations of Madagascar; Chapter 7 Alternative Masculinities: Pirates and Family Life; Chapter 8 ?Stand and Deliver?: The Pirate Inheritance;