Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Piracy in World History
- 2 “Publique Enemies to Mankind”: International Pirates as a Product of International Politics
- 3 All at Sea: Locke’s Tyrants and the Pyrates of Political Thought
- 4 The Colonial Origins of Theorizing Piracy’s Relation to Failed States
- 5 The Bugis-Makassar Seafarers: Pirates or Entrepreneurs?
- 6 Piracy in India’s Western Littoral: Reality and Representation
- 7 Holy Warriors, Rebels, and Thieves: Defining Maritime Violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean
- 8 Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China
- 9 Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters: Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570–1800
- 10 Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis: Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought
- 11 “Pirates of the Sea and the Land”: Concurrent Vietnamese and French Concepts of Piracy during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Pirate Passages in Global History: Afterword
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Piracy in World History
- 2 “Publique Enemies to Mankind”: International Pirates as a Product of International Politics
- 3 All at Sea: Locke’s Tyrants and the Pyrates of Political Thought
- 4 The Colonial Origins of Theorizing Piracy’s Relation to Failed States
- 5 The Bugis-Makassar Seafarers: Pirates or Entrepreneurs?
- 6 Piracy in India’s Western Littoral: Reality and Representation
- 7 Holy Warriors, Rebels, and Thieves: Defining Maritime Violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean
- 8 Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China
- 9 Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters: Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570–1800
- 10 Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis: Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought
- 11 “Pirates of the Sea and the Land”: Concurrent Vietnamese and French Concepts of Piracy during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Pirate Passages in Global History: Afterword
- Index
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- Piracy in World History , pp. 285 - 289Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2021