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Autore: | Lunsford Virginia West |
Titolo: | Piracy and privateering in the golden age Netherlands / / Virginia West Lunsford |
Pubblicazione: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
Edizione: | First edition 2005. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 910.4/5 |
Soggetto topico: | Privateering - Netherlands - History - 17th century |
Pirates - Netherlands - History - 17th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Netherlands History, Naval |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-348) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; List of Figures; Chronology; Introduction; Part I The Dutch Sea Robber Defined; Part II Cultural Underpinnings; Part III Conclusions; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading,exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until now. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Piracy and privateering in the golden age Netherlands |
ISBN: | 1-281-36805-9 |
9786611368050 | |
1-4039-7938-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827248003321 |
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