In the early modern period, both legal and illegal maritime predation was a common occurrence, but the expansion of European maritime empires exacerbated existing and created new problems of piracy across the globe. This collection of original case studies addresses these early modern problems in three sections: first, states’ attempts to exercise jurisdiction over seafarers and their actions; second, the multiple predatory marine practices considered ‘piracy’; and finally, the many representations made about piracy by states or the seafarers themselves. Across nine chapters covering regions including southeast Asia, the Atlantic archipelago, the North African states, and the Caribbean Sea, the complexities of defining and criminalizing maritime predation is explored, raising questions surrounding subjecthood, interpolity law, and the impacts of colonization on the legal and social construction of ocean, port, and coastal spaces. Seeking the meanings and motivations behind piracy, this book reveals that while European states attempted to fashion piracy into a global and homogenous phenomenon, it was largely a local and often idiosyncratic issue.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations Commonly Used in Notes
- Introduction
- John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan, David Wilson
- Section I: Jurisdiction
- 1. Local Maritime Jurisdiction in the Early English Caribbean
- 2. Primitive, Peregrinate, Piratical: Framing Southeast Asian Sea-Nomads in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Discourse and Imperial Practice
- Section II: Practices
- 3. Scots, Castilians, and Other Enemies: Piracy in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World
- 4. Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728
- 5. Pirate Encounters and Perceptions of Southern-Netherlandish Sailors on the North Sea and the Indian Ocean, 1704–1781
- Section III: Representations
- 6. “A Fellow! I think, in all Respects, worthy your Esteem and Favour”: Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724–1734
- 7. Henry Glasby: Atypical Pirate or a Typical Pirate?
- 8. “Our Affairs with the Pyratical States”: The United States and the Barbary Crisis, 1784–1797
- Afterword
- Bibilography
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- Tables
- Table 1: North American Ports, the Logwood Trade, and Employment, 1714 to 1727
- Table 2. Editions of A General History of the Pyrates, 1724–1734
- Maps
- Map 1. Jamaica and the Caribbean Sea
- Map 2. Insular Southeast Asia
- Map 3. Ireland and the Surrounding Seas
- Map 4. Boston Logwood Trade
- Map 5. Ostend and the Indian Ocean
- Map 6. Henry Glasby’s Voyage
- Map 7. North African Ottoman States
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