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Bandits at Sea Bandits at Sea A Pirates Reader edited by C. R. Pennell a New York University Press new york and london new york university press New York and London © 2001 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bandits at sea : a pirates reader / edited by C. R. Pennell. p. cm. ISBN 0-8147-6678-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8147-6679-X (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Pirates. I. Pennell, C. R. II. Title. G535 .B26 2001 910.4'5—dc21 00-012702 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Sarah and Sam Contents Acknowledgments ix part i: Situating Piracy 1 Introduction: Brought to Book: Reading about Pirates 3 C. R. Pennell 2 The Pirate and the Emperor: Power and the Law on the Seas, 1450–1850 25 Anne Pérotin-Dumon 3 The Geography of Piracy: Northern Morocco in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 55 C. R. Pennell 4 The Origins and Regulation of Eighteenth-Century British Privateering 69 David J. Starkey 5 Piracy and World History: An Economic Perspective on Maritime Predation 82 John L. Anderson 6 Pirates and Markets 107 David J. Starkey 7 Corsairing as a Commercial System: The Edges of Legitimate Trade 125 Gonçal López Nadal part ii: Pirates in Action 8 The Seaman as Pirate: Plunder and Social Banditry at Sea 139 Marcus Rediker 9 Outlaws at Sea, 1660–1720: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity among the Caribbean Freebooters 169 J. S. Bromley vii viii Contents 10 Black Men under the Black Flag 195 Kenneth J. Kinkor 11 The Buccaneer Community 211 B. R. Burg 12 The Practice of Homosexuality among the Pirates of Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century China 244 Dian Murray 13 Cheng I Sao in Fact and Fiction 253 Dian Murray 14 Women and Piracy in Ireland: From Gráinne O’Malley to Anne Bonny 283 John C. Appleby 15 Liberty beneath the Jolly Roger: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates 299 Marcus Rediker 16 Women among the Uskoks of Senj: Literary Images and Reality 321 Wendy Bracewell Contributors 335 Permissions 339 Index 341 All illustrations appear as a group following p. 196 Acknowledgments I would like to thank Wong Mun Wei for her help in proofreading some of the articles in this collection and for very many other things. I must also express my appreciation of the staff of the Inter-Library loans section of the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne and in particular Mrs. Vija Pattison; without their help the task of checking some of the more obscure references would have been even more difficult than it was already. I am grateful to numerous students in my course on piracy at the University of Melbourne for making it quite clear which articles in the collection that was originally proposed should in fact be kept. David Starkey of the University of Hull provided a great many excellent suggestions. It was a pleasure to work with all the contributors; it is hard to imagine a more good-humored and helpful group of people. Niko Pfund of NYU Press was a very good motivator indeed. Finally I would like to thank my children, Sarah and Sam (in strict reverse alphabetic order), for their tolerance. Since I know they would like to have a book about pirates dedi- cated to them, this one is. ix
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