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Piracy in World History Hb
1. The present volume brings together some of the leading scholars of piracy and related forms of maritime violence in different global contexts, including East Asia, the Indian Ocean World, the Mediterranean and the Americas. 2. In this we bring the different geographic and thematic areas of study into mutual conversation. 3, We thus stimulate further explorations in the connective as well as the comparative aspects of piracy in long, global and colonial, historical perspective.
Enemies of All
A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire. The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined by one historical moment: the period from the 1660s to the 1730s, the so-called "golden age of piracy." A groundbreaking history of pirates, Enemies of All combines narrative adventure with deeply researched analysis, engrossing readers in the rise of piracy in the later seventeenth century, the debates about piracy in contem...
Pirates of Empire
This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Early Modern European Diplomacy
New Diplomatic History has turned into one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of research – especially with regard to early modern history. It has shown that diplomacy was not as homogenous as previously thought. On the contrary, it was shaped by a multitude of actors, practices and places. The handbook aims to characterise these different manifestations of diplomacy and to contextualise them within ongoing scientific debates. It brings together scholars from different disciplines and historiographical traditions. The handbook deliberately focuses on European diplomacy – although non-European areas are taken into account for future research – in order to limit the framework and ensure precise definitions of diplomacy and its manifestations. This must be the prerequisite for potential future global historical perspectives including both the non-European and the European world.
»Alle, die mit uns auf Kaperfahrt fahren«
Seeraub ist ein aktuelles Thema, dessen Wurzeln bis in die frühe Menschheitsgeschichte zurückreichen. Doch so vertraut die Piraten uns auch scheinen, so widersprüchlich und schillernd sind die Freibeuter der Meere bei näherer Betrachtung. Sind sie Helden der Freiheit oder organisierte Kriminelle? Rächer der Entrechteten oder mörderische Agenten imperialer Großmächte? Räuber zur See oder Entrepreneure mit politischem Gestaltungsanspruch? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beschränken sich nicht nur auf die Geschichte der Seeräuber von der Antike bis heute, sondern nehmen auch die literarische, mythologische und filmische Bearbeitung der Piraterie in den Blick. Sie achten zudem auf den Rollenwechsel der Seeräuber – zwischen Held und Pirat in der Odyssee, zwischen Pirat und Söldner in Byzanz oder Venedig, zwischen Kaperfahrer mit staatlicher Erlaubnis und freiem Pirat in der frühneuzeitlichen Karibik.
Women and the Politics of Gender in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste
This book presents a wide-ranging overview of the position of women in Timor-Leste, 15 years after the country secured its independence. It considers the role of women in Timor-Leste’s history, explores their role in the present day economy and politics, and discusses their contribution to culture and society. The contested meaning of gender itself is investigated in the contemporary culture of this new society. It applies a wide range of different feminist theories and approaches, and concludes with a discussion of what new directions gender studies in Timor-Leste might take.
The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810
The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Japanese sources—some translated for the first time—to illustrate the complexity and variety of piratical activities in Asian waters. These documents include archival criminal cases and depositions of pirates and victims, government reports and proclamations, memoirs of coastal residents and pirate captives, and written and oral folklore handed down for generations. The book also illuminates the important role that pirates played in the political, economic, social, and cultural transformations of early modern China and the world. An historical perspective provides an important vantage point to understand piracy as a recurring cyclical phenomenon inseparably connected with the past.
Pane quotidiano
Quando e come il grano, per millenni merce scarsa, deperibile e difficile da conservare e trasportare, è diventato una commodity scambiata in immense quantità, prevalentemente da pochissimi, «faustiani», giganti mondiali? A partire da uno sguardo sui complessi e angusti mercati di ancien régime, dove gli scambi erano convulsi, frammentati, opachi, soggetti al rischio costante del clima, delle guerre e dell’arbitrarietà dei governi e soprattutto a corta portata, questo libro ripercorre l’imponente ma sottostimata «Rivoluzione commerciale» che da metà Ottocento ha fatto del grano una merce improvvisamente «facile» da trasportare e negoziare su scala planetaria. È infatti a rido...
Global Piracy
Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it: both the pirates or privateers themselves and their victims. The book allows us to confront our stereotypes by giving us access to “real” pirates in a wide range of historical periods and global regions, from ancient Greece to modern day Nigeria, unfiltered as much as possible by authorial voice o...
