The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea

List of Abbreviations, Commonly Used in Notes, List of Tables, List of Maps, Introduction - John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan, David Wilson, SECTION I: Jurisdiction, Chapter One: Local Maritime Jurisdiction in the Early English Caribbean - John Coakley, Chapter Two: Primitive, Peregrinate, Piratical: Framing Southeast Asian Sea-Nomads in Nineteenth Century Colonial Discourse and Imperial Practice - Martin Müller, SECTION II: Practices, Chapter Three - Scots, Castilians, and Other Enemies: Piracy in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World - Simon Egan, Chapter Four - Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728 - Steven J. Pitt, Chapter Five: Pirate Encounters and Perceptions of Southern-Netherlandish Sailors on the North Sea & the Indian Ocean, 1704-1781 - Wim de Winter, SECTION III: Representations, Chapter Six: A Fellow! I think, in all Respects, worthy your Esteem and Favour: Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724-1734 - Rebecca James, Chapter Seven: Henry Glasby: Atypical Pirate or a Typical Pirate? - James Rankine, Chapter Eight, Our Affairs with the Pyratical States: The United States and the Barbary Crisis, 1784-1797 - Anna Diamantouli,Afterword - Claire Jowitt, Bibilography, Index.