Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates

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"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...

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Pirates United States History

United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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ISBN:

9781631496226
9781631492105
1631492101

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxi, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Notes:

Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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!"

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3194054

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