Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Preface for Second Edition

A Chronology of Early Modern Piracy in the Americas

Introduction

1 Spain and the Sixteenth-Century Corsairs

2 Smugglers, Pirates, and Privateers: The Elizabethans

3 From the Low Countries to the High Seas: The Dutch Sea-Rovers

4 The Seventeenth-Century Caribbean Buccaneers

5 Buccaneers in the South Sea

6 The Last Buccaneers and Pirate Suppression

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Table of Early Modern Pirates and Contemporary European Monarchs

Appendix 2: Piracy in the South China Sea

Glossary of Terms

Select Bibliography

Index

About the Author