Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

by V. Lunsford

Overview

Lunsford (history, US Naval Academy) offers considerable factual information about Dutch privateering from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries, and introduces some of the first raw data on Dutch piracy during the period. But further, she explores the cultural identities that privateers and pirates maintained in the early modern Netherlands, and the special place the sea robber held in the Golden Age Republican mentality. Writing social history, she draws on popular imagery, songs and poetry, and decorative arts as well as more formal sources. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349529803
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	06/15/2005
Edition description:	1st ed. 2005
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

VIRGINIA LUNSFORD-POE is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy, USA. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: THE DUTCH SEA ROBBER DEFINED Kapers and Commissievaarders: The Dutch Privateer A 'Malicious Business': Piracy in the Dutch Republic PART II: CULTURAL UNDERPINNINGS Collective Identity, Nationalism, and the Golden Age Netherlands Piracy, the Dutch and the Seventeenth-Century Seas PART III: CONCLUSIONS Prizes and 'Excesses': The Golden Age Pirate The Dutch Freebooter in the Golden Age