2nd Edition
Pillaging the Empire Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
List of Tables, Maps, and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Preface for Second Edition
A Chronology of Early Modern Piracy in the Americas
Introduction
1 Spain and the Sixteenth-Century Corsairs
2 Smugglers, Pirates, and Privateers: The Elizabethans
3 From the Low Countries to the High Seas: The Dutch Sea-Rovers
4 The Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Buccaneers
5 Buccaneers in the South Sea
6 The Last Buccaneers and Pirate Suppression
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Table of Early Modern Pirates and Contemporary European Monarchs
Appendix 2: Piracy in the South China Sea
Glossary of Terms
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Biography
Kris Lane holds the France V. Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American Historyat Tulane University. He is the author of Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires and Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition. He is currently writing a book on the colonial history of Potosí, Bolivia.
Praise for the first edition:
"Lane has told this story with great verve, bringing alive the fabulous characters who were the buccaneers while also filling out the less well-known story of Spanish efforts at defense."
—Hispanic American Historical Review, Robert C. Ritchie, Huntington Library
"Kris Lane weaves a tale of pirate activities in the Americas and of Spanish responses to those activities that reveals aspects of pirate life and culture not usually addressed in the standard histories of Latin America. He demythologizes the pirates of popular culture and places them in their broader historical context….An intriguing, concise, and informative work that students are bound to enjoy."
—H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews, James E. Wadsworth, University of Arizona
