The Politics of Piracy : Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America (Hardcover)

from JBD1

A different perspective on Atlantic piracy during the late seventeenth century than we tend to get from Marcus Rediker and others. Burgess focuses on the legal and political squabbles over piracy which set colonial and crown officials at loggerheads, while also emphasizing the key differences bet...

from Kordo

An interesting (academically-bent) history of piracy and the connection it had to colonial governments. While Burgess tells a fascinating story, the book gets bogged down at times by the sheer number of colonial figures he refers to. The book also suffers from Burgess' need to emphasis how his ap...

from empress8411

Having an interest in both pirates and colonial America, I was eager to read this. It did not disappoint. Burgess makes a strong argument for his case: that piracy during the late 1690s was the source of the first civil disobedience on the part of colonies. His writing is clearly meant for the ed...

from Avogt221

For those of you looking for a pulpy tale of pirates and daring do, you may want to look elsewhere. This book takes a slightly more academic approach to piracy and the development of colonial governments. Because of this approach there are a lot of names which I had not previously been familiar w...

from waltzmn

Where do pirates hide their gold? No, it isn't on some island where X marks the spot. Instead, it was in the American colonies before the American Revolution. This isn't really news. The reason the famous Captain Kidd was hanged was because he thought he was going to be a privateer (that is, a pr...