Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3, 000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Persistent Piracy in World History; Stefan Eklöf Amirell and Leos Müller 1. Piracy in Classical Antiquity: The Origins and Evolution of the Concept; Philip de Souza 2. Ship-Men and Slaughter-Wolves: Pirate Polities in the Viking Age; Neil Price 3. Violence, Protection, and Commerce: Corsairing and ars piratica in the Early Modern Mediterranean; Wolfgang Kaiser and Guillaume Calafat 4. A Hokkien Maritime Empire in the East and South China Seas, 1620–83; James K. Chin 5. Maritime Violence and State Formation in Vietnam: Piracy and the Tay Son Rebellion, 1771–1802; Robert J. Antony 6. A Persistent Phenomenon: Private Prize-Taking in the British Atlantic World, c.1540–1856; David J. Starkey and Matthew Mc Carthy 7. Trade for Bullion to Trade for Commodities and ‚Piracy‘: China, the West and the Sulu Zone, 1768–1898; James Francis Warren 8. Piracy, Security and State Formation in the Early Twenty-first Century; Stig Jarle Hansen
Über den Autor
Robert J. Antony, University of Macau, China Guillaume Calafat, University Paris 1, France James K. Chin, Jinan University, China Philip de Souza, University College Dublin, Ireland Stig Jarle Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) Wolfgang Kaiser, University Paris 1 (Sorbonne), France Matthew Mc Carthy, University of Hull, UK Neil Price, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK David J. Starkey, University of Hull, UK James Francis Warren, Murdoch University, Australia
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