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The pirates' pact : the secret alliances between history's most notorious buccaneers and colonial America
Title:
The pirates' pact : the secret alliances between history's most notorious buccaneers and colonial America
Author:
Burgess, Douglas R., Jr.
Personal Author:
Burgess, Douglas R., Jr.
Publication Information:
Chicago : McGraw-Hill, 2008.

©2009
Physical Description:
301 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Enemies of the human race -- Erring captains : state-sponsored piracy and its aftermath -- "His majesty's pleasure" : Henry Morgan and Jamaica -- Oddsfish! -- The pirate cabal -- King Baldridge and the Red Sea pirates -- Amity, liberty, and Thomas Tew -- Henry Every, "as yet an Englishman's friend" -- Trials and tribulations -- The most hated man in America -- Nemesis -- "Your loving friends" -- The despair of Lord Bellomont -- "That race of wicked men" -- Afterword : pirate patronage in the twenty-first century.
Subject Term:
Pirates -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- History.

Pirates -- Caribbean Area -- History.

Piracy -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- History.

Piracy -- Caribbean Area -- History.

Governors -- United States -- History.

Governors -- West Indies, British -- History.
Geographic Term:
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration.

Great Britain -- Colonies -- West Indies -- Administration.
ISBN:
9780071474764
Format :
Book

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