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Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands by Virginia Lunsford-Poe (Hardback, 2005)

This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and ecomic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading,exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until w. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important new light on Dutch and European history as well, such as the history of national identity and state formation, and the history of crime and criminality.

Place of Publication
Gordonsville
Regional Cuisine
European
Subjects
Travel
Content Note
15 Black & White Illustrations, Biography
Region
World
Author Biography
VIRGINIA LUNSFORD-POE is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy, USA. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
Cookery Topic
Travel Writing
Topic
Waterways, Crime, Writing, Presents, Early Modern,Waterways,Presents,History,Crime,Writing, History, Early Modern
Date of Publication
01/06/2005
Dimensions
240x159x25mm
Edition Statement
2005 Ed.
Genre
Travel Writing
Country of Publication
United States

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