Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy 1678-1865
This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and und...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Series: | Maritime Literature and Culture,
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428411106719 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Pirate as a Figure of Crisis and Legitimacy
- 2. Pirate Narratives and the Colonial Atlantic
- 3. Pirate Narratives and the Revolutionary Atlantic in the Early Republic and the Antebellum Period
- 4. Cultural Constructions of Piracy during the Crisis over Slavery
- 5. Coda.
