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Patterns of Pillage
Peter R. Galvin
其他書名
A Geography of Caribbean-based Piracy in Spanish America, 1536-1718
出版
Peter Lang
, 1999
主題
History / Latin America / General
History / Caribbean & West Indies / General
History / Maritime History & Piracy
Science / Earth Sciences / Geography
Science / History
ISBN
0820437719
9780820437712
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cEYNAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Patterns of Pillage
offers a fresh, geographical perspective on the story of piracy in and around the Caribbean. It focuses on places associated with the sea rovers of Spanish America: routes, targets, hideaways, rendezvous, and island strongholds. Why did pirates - the likes of Francis Drake, Henry Morgan, and Blackbeard - haunt particular places? How did their spatial strategies develop and change over the centuries? Much of the explanation lies in geographic factors such as winds, ocean currents, coastal features, maritime bottlenecks, historical geopolitics, merchant traffic flow, and the distribution of natural resources. All contributed to
patterns
of piracy that connected the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, Cape Horn, and beyond.