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100 1 _aBurgess, Douglas R., Jr.
_eAuteur
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245 1 4 _aThe politics of piracy
_h[Texte imprimé] :
_bcrime and civil disobedience in colonial America, 1660-1730 /
_cDouglas R. Burgess Jr.
260 _a[Hanover] :
_bForeEdge,
_ccop. 2014
300 _a1 vol. (291 p.) :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm
504 _aBibliogr. p. 271-284
505 0 _aIntroduction: the sorrowful tale of Robert Snead -- Part I. Beginnings -- London fog: a brief, confusing history of English piracy law -- The phantom fleet of Porto Principe: privateering and admiralty, 1660-1688 -- "A spot upon our garment": the Red Sea fever in colonial New York, 1691-1698 -- Part II. An empire in crisis -- Voyage of the Fancy, 1696 -- The successful pyrate: a tale of two trials -- The ballad of Henry Every: criminality and print culture in the public sphere -- Part III. Pirate nests -- "Ignorance of their duty": a New Jersey warning, 1697 -- A society of friends: piracy and Quakerism in Pennsylvania -- "A bloody crew of privateers": resistance and right in Rhode Island -- Part IV. Rope's end -- The bonds of slavery: law, letters, and the Resumption Bill of 1701-2 -- From community to periphery: trial and execution in the American colonies, 1705-1730 -- Conclusion: forgotten revolutions
653 _aPirates / United States / History
653 _aUnited States / History / Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
653 _aPiracy / United States / History
653 _aGreat Britain / Colonies / America / Administration
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