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Pirates of the British Isles

Joel Baer

出版	Tempus, 2005
主題	History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)History / Military / NavalHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Maritime History & PiracySocial Science / CriminologyTrue Crime / General
ISBN	07524230459780752423043
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=b4RzAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

From Blackbeard, to the pirates' pirate, Black Bart, this book encapsulates the true story of the 'golden age of piracy' and how it ended. Pirates are usually thought of as dashing, freedom loving rogues with contempt for the law and its minions. The mythical hero of the golden age of piracy (c.1660-c.1730) lived for the moment, so goes the myth, and the devil take the consequences. Joel Baer shows how false a notion this really is and how aware freebooters were of the law. Baer reveals how, whenever possible, they attempted to walk a fine line between sanctioned privateering and outright piracy. Pirateers, as they were sometimes called at the time, were often spectacularly successful at this game, exploiting legal loopholes, corrupt officials, and the shifting sands of international relations to legitimize their actions. Joel Baer tells the story of this age through the lens of seven British freebooters. The author details their exuberant and murderous lives, their crimes, and 'prizes', and how the Admiralty forced through Parliament new laws that ultimately defeated them.