Piracy in World History

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-921-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800

In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world, mainly for the purpose of furthering colonial forms of domination in the economic, political, military, legal and cultural spheres. By contrast, this edited volume highlights the relevance of both European and non-European understandings of piracy to the development of global maritime security and freedom of navigation. It explores the significance of ‘legal posturing’ on the part of those accused of piracy, as well as the existence of non-European laws and regulations regarding piracy and related forms of maritime violence in the early modern era. The authors in Piracy in World History highlight cases from various parts of the early-modern world, thereby explaining piracy as a global phenomenon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amirell, Stefan

Hägerdal, Hans

Buchan, Bruce

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gaynor, Jennifer

Antony, Robert

White, Joshua

Tremml-Werner, Birgit

Kempe, Michael

Östlund, Joachim

Subramanian, Lakshmi

Benton, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Piracy in World History

Stefan Eklof Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hagerdal

2 "Publique Enemies to Mankind": International Pirates as a Product of International Politics

Michael Kempe

3 All at Sea: Locke's Tyrants and the Pyrates of Political Thought

Bruce Buchan

4 The Colonial Origins of Theorizing Piracy’s Relation to Failed States

Jennifer L. Gaynor

5 The Bugis-Makassar Seafarers: Pirates or Entrepreneurs?

Hans Hagerdal

6 Piracy in India's Western Littoral: Reality and Representation

Lakshmi Subramanian

7 Holy Warriors, Rebels, and Thieves: Defining Maritime Violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Joshua M. White

8 Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China

Robert J. Antony

9 Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters: Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570–1800

Birgit Tremml-Werner

10 Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis: Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought

Joachim Ostlund and Bruce Buchan

11 "Pirates of the Sea and the Land": Concurrent Vietnamese and French Concepts of Piracy during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Stefan Eklof Amirell

12 Pirate Passages in Global History: Afterword

Lauren Benton

Über Autor(innen)

Hägerdal, Hans
Hans Hägerdal is a professor of history at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His major fields are East and Southeast Asian history, in particular focusing on early-modern colonial encounters and contact zones, historiographical questions, and the history of slaving.

Amirell, Stefan
Stefan Eklöf Amirell is a professor of global history at Linnaeus University, Sweden, and the director of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. His research focuses on colonial encounters and maritime violence during the long nineteenth century.

Buchan, Bruce
Bruce Buchan is an intellectual historian specializing in the intersection of colonization with the history of ideas in the late eighteenth century. He is an associate professor in the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences, at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.