Appleby Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78204-171-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the early seventeenth century. The emergence of long-distance and globalized predation had far reaching consequences for female agency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Appleby, John C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The Rise and Fall of English Piracy from the 1540s to the 1720s
Pirates, Female Receivers and Partners: The Discrete Supporters of Maritime Plunder from the 1540s to the 1640s
Wives, Partners and Prostitutes: Women and Long-Distance Piracy from the 1640s to the 1720s
Petitioners and Victims: Women's Experiences from the 1620s to the 1720s
The Women Pirates: Fact or Fiction?
Epilogue
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Appleby John C.:
JOHN C. APPLEBY is a Senior Lecturer in History at Liverpool Hope University. He is the author of Women and English Piracy, (Boydell, 2013).