Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

V. Lunsford

ISBN 10: 1403966923 / ISBN 13: 9781403966926

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan Us Jun 2005, 2005

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Neuware - This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading,exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until now. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan Us Jun 2005
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1403966923
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781403966926
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 243 L x 162 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 243 millimètres de largeur par 162 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 726 grammes

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Synopsis

This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading, exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until now. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.

À propos de l?auteur

VIRGINIA LUNSFORD-POE is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy, USA. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland.