The story begins with a discussion of Piracy and the Suppression of Piracy in the Ancient World. It details, for example, how the Illyrians used pirate vessels to try to wrest control of the Adriatic Coast from the mighty Romans, as well as how the intrepid Vikings went from pirate raids to the conquest of parts of Western Europe.
Moving into the 17th century and to the New World, Bradford depicts the golden age of the pirates. Here are the Spanish Buccaneers and the fabled Caribbean stronghold of Tortuga. Here are Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, and their fearsome counterparts. But piracy was hardly just a Western phenomenon. The Barbary Pirates looks East to examine the struggle between Christian and Muslim in the Mediterranean, while To the Shores of Tripoli details the American conflict with the Barbary Pirates. It reveals the lessons of a war conducted across a great distance against a nebulous enemy, a war in which victory was achieved only by going after the pirates' sponsor. On the South China Coast, we meet the first Dragon Lady, leader of Chinese pirates.
Эта книга дает обзор более чем 2000 лет пиратства, начиная с Древней Греции и Римской империи, рассматривает разные регионы мира от Америки до Юго-Восточной Азии.
Название: Flying the black flag. A brief hyistory of Piracy
Издательство: Praeger Publishers
Год издания: 2007
Автор: Alfred S. Bradford
Язык: english
Страниц: 226 pages
Формат: pdf в rar
Размер: 10,4 Мб
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