Introduction: Brought to book: reading about pirates / C.R. Pennell
The pirate and the emperor: power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850 / Anne Pérotin-Dumon
The geography of piracy: northern Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century / C.R. Pennell
The origins and regulation of eighteenth-century British privateering / David J. Starkey
Piracy and world history: an economic perspective on maritime predation / John L. Anderson
Pirates and markets / David J. Starkey
Corsairing as a commercial system: the edges of legitimate trade / Gonçal López Nadal
The seaman as pirate: plunder and social banditry at sea / Marcus Rediker
Outlaws at sea, 1660-1720: liberty, equality, and fraternity among the Caribbean freebooters / J.S. Bromley
Black men under the black flag / Kenneth J. Kinkor
The buccaneer community / B.R. Burg
The practice of homosexuality among the pirates of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century China / Dian Murray
Cheng I Sao in fact and fiction / Dian Murray
Women and piracy in Ireland: from Gráinne O'Malley to Anne Bonny / John C. Appleby
Liberty beneath the Jolly Roger: the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirates / Marcus Rediker
Women among the Uskoks of Senj: literary images and reality / Wendy Bracewell.