Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates /
Dolin, Eric Jay,
Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates / Eric Jay Dolin. - First edition. - xxi, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-365) and index.
Small beginnings -- Welcomed with open arms -- "Where the money was as plenty as stones and sand" -- Crackdown -- War's reprieve -- Interlude, or a pirate classification -- Treasure and the tempest -- The gentleman pirate and Blackbeard -- Fading away -- Epilogue: "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!"
"Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's 'Golden Age'--spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s--when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Blending scholarship and drama, Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the British Crown, and then violently opposed them. Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, among them the towering Blackbeard, the ill-fated Captain Kidd, and the sadistic Edward Low, who delighted in torturing his prey"--Back cover.
9781631496226 1631496220
Pirates--History.--United States
Hijacking of ships--History.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates / Eric Jay Dolin. - First edition. - xxi, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-365) and index.
Small beginnings -- Welcomed with open arms -- "Where the money was as plenty as stones and sand" -- Crackdown -- War's reprieve -- Interlude, or a pirate classification -- Treasure and the tempest -- The gentleman pirate and Blackbeard -- Fading away -- Epilogue: "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!"
"Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's 'Golden Age'--spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s--when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Blending scholarship and drama, Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the British Crown, and then violently opposed them. Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, among them the towering Blackbeard, the ill-fated Captain Kidd, and the sadistic Edward Low, who delighted in torturing his prey"--Back cover.
9781631496226 1631496220
Pirates--History.--United States
Hijacking of ships--History.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.