Virginia West Lunsford Piracy and privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

"This original scholarly work examines the little-known story of Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth century. The young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic preeminence, and many of its seamen took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy, shedding new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national...

Engels | 354 pagina's | Palgrave Macmillan, New York, N.Y., [etc.] | 2005

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