The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World : Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea.

Cover
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations Commonly Used in Notes
Introduction
John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan, David Wilson
Section I: Jurisdiction
1. Local Maritime Jurisdiction in the Early English Caribbean
John Coakley
2. Primitive, Peregrinate, Piratical: Framing Southeast Asian Sea-Nomads in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Discourse and Imperial Practice
Martin Müller
Section II: Practices
3. Scots, Castilians, and Other Enemies: Piracy in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World
Simon Egan
4. Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728
Steven J. Pitt
5. Pirate Encounters and Perceptions of Southern-Netherlandish Sailors on the North Sea and the Indian Ocean, 1704-1781
Wim de Winter
Section III: Representations
6. "A Fellow! I think, in all Respects, worthy your Esteem and Favour": Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724-1734
Rebecca James
7. Henry Glasby: Atypical Pirate or a Typical Pirate?
James Rankine
8. "Our Affairs with the Pyratical States": The United States and the Barbary Crisis, 1784-1797
Anna Diamantouli
Afterword
Claire Jowitt
Bibilography
Index
List of Illustrations
Tables
Table 1: North American Ports, the Logwood Trade, and Employment, 1714 to 1727
Table 2. Editions of A General History of the Pyrates, 1724-1734
Maps
Map 1. Jamaica and the Caribbean Sea
Map 2. Insular Southeast Asia
Map 3. Ireland and the Surrounding Seas
Map 4. Boston Logwood Trade
Map 5. Ostend and the Indian Ocean
Map 6. Henry Glasby's Voyage
Map 7. North African Ottoman States.