Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 (Latin American Realities)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765602563 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This introductory survey to maritime predation in the Americas from the age of Columbus to the reign of the Spanish king Philip V includes piracy, privateering (state-sponsored sea-robbery), and genuine warfare carried out by professional navies.
KAT said Research. This is a good book for researching about pirates or for anyone whose curious to learn the non-Hollywood version of piracy.. G. Putnam said Lots of enthusiasm but doesn't translate to the reader.. This book was clearly written by someone who loves pirates and knows a lot about them. Unfortunately it's packed so full of names, dates and places that there's no real room for narrative. As a reader I was so worried about which name went with which ship in what part of the world and under whose flag that I was often burned out on the subject after half a chapter.It includes maps which are very good and essential, and there are 'boxes' at the end of each chapter containing anecdotal information (such as chapter "Lots of enthusiasm but doesn't translate to the reader." according to G. Putnam. This book was clearly written by someone who loves pirates and knows a lot about them. Unfortunately it's packed so full of names, dates and places that there's no real room for narrative. As a reader I was so worried about which name went with which ship in what part of the world and under whose flag that I was often burned out on the subject after half a chapter.It includes maps which are very good and essential, and there are 'boxes' at the end of each chapter containing anecdotal information (such as chapter 2'. '. J. Graml said A fun, accurate book on piracy. Kris Lane apparently grew up with the same wide-eyed awe of pirates that most of us grew up with. His "Pillaging the Empire" does it's best to reshape our opinions of pirates as a fun-loving bunch of misfits and saucy rogues, but like many recent works on the subject of piracy, he doesn't quite do it. One can't help but retain a skewed view of pirates, despite the unpleasant tales of how dirty ships were, how rotten the food was, how murderous the population was, etc. Like David Cordingly's excellent "Under the Bla
At first, the French, English, and Dutch governments dispatched pirates and privateers to plunder Spanish ships and settlements. Lane (history, William and Mary Coll.) has written widely on the histories of piracy and witchcraft and has carefully studied the pirates' effect on the Spanish carrying trade. This is a well-written and important scholarly examination of an often romanticized subject and the first of its kind in English. . These were not the pirates of Treasure Island but murdering, pitiless buccaneers. From Library Journal Pirates followed Columbus to the New World. Recommended for all maritime history collections.?Stanley Itkin, Hillside P.L., New Hyde Park, NYCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Soon pirates became "independent