The Pirate's Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America

摘要

A quote by Justice Sir Charles Hedges (page 12) seems as appropriate today as it did in 1696 when he made it,rn"piracy is only a term for sea robbery__"rnGiven the escalating, and particularly brazen acts of piracy presently occurring in the Indian Ocean, I found it interesting to make comparisons between the acts and motivation of the piracy detailed in The Pirates' Pact to those occurring today. Douglas Burgess presents the reader with a thoroughly researched and well-written history of piracy during its golden age and its intimate relationship with colonial America. Drawing on an extensive collection of primary sources, many previously unexploited, Burgess delves into the political, commercial, and legal realities of piracy, illuminating the motivation behind the acts of many of history's most infamous pirates.