| #46066 in Books | NYU Press | 2001-04-01 | 2001-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.25 x.95 x7.13l,1.50 | File Name: 0814766781 | 400 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| never dry (much like the seas|By RW|Historians and romantics alike can be intrigued (I conside myself both). An array of topics, from various academically rigorous writers, never dry (much like the seas :) ) and meets the expectation of research too often unmet in the genre. I'm glad I chose this book!|4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.|From Publishers Weekly|With titles like "Black Men Under the Black Flag" and "The Practice of Homosexuality Among the Pirates of China," the 16 scholarly essays of Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader deliberately set out to explode myths and stereotypes. C.R. Penn
The romantic fiction of pirates as swashbuckling marauders terrorizing the high seas has long eclipsed historical fact. Bandits at Sea offers a long-overdue corrective to the mythology and the mystique which has plagued the study of pirates and served to deny them their rightful legitimacy as subjects of investigation.
With essays by the foremost scholars on these countercultural "social bandits"as Lingua Franca recently dubbed the...
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