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Buccaneers and Privateers
The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675–1725
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2012
Summary
In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe. Seeking to disrupt Spain’s nearly unchecked empire-building and siphon off some of their wealth, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British adventurers—both legitimate and illegitimate—led numerous expeditions into the Caribbean and the Pacific. Many voyagers wrote accounts of their exploits, captivating readers with their tales of exotic places, shocking hardships and cruelties, and daring engagements with national enemies. Widely distributed and read, buccaneering and privateering narratives contributed significantly to England’s imaginative, literary rendering of the Americas in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and they provided a venue for public dialogue about sea rovers and their position within empire. This book takes as its subject the literary and rhetorical construction of voyagers and their histories, and by extension, the representation of English imperialism in popular sea-voyage narratives of the period.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright Year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-61149-387-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-61149-388-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
190
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
List of Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter One. Bible Overboard: The Word and the Grand Pirate, Captain George Cusack No access Pages 9 - 26
Chapter Two. “The Usual Atrocities: ”Narrating Henry Morgan’s Raid on Panama City No access Pages 27 - 50
Chapter Three. Exquemelin in England: The Literary Transformation of Henry Morgan No access Pages 51 - 76
Chapter Four. Captain Bartholomew Sharp and the “Sacred Hunger of Gold” No access Pages 77 - 102
Chapter Five. Reconsidering William Dampier’s Colonial Vision No access Pages 103 - 124
Chapter Six. Consummate Privateers Edward Cooke and Woodes Rogers No access Pages 125 - 152
Chapter Seven. The Return of the Buccaneer in the Voyage Narratives of Shelvocke and Betagh No access Pages 153 - 172
