Angus Konstam: The Pirate Menace
The Pirate Menace
Buch
- Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
- Bloomsbury UK, 05/2024
- Einband: Gebunden, Hardback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781472857736
- Bestellnummer: 11614991
- Umfang: 383 Seiten
- Sonstiges: 8-page plate section in colour
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 234 x 153 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 9.5.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau.Angus Konstam, one of the world's leading pirate experts, has brought his 30 years of research to create the definitive book on the Golden Age of Piracy. Many of the privateers the British had used to prey on French and Spanish shipping during the War of the Spanish Succession turned to piracy. The pirates took over Nassau on the Bahamian island of New Providence and turned it into their own pirate haven, where shady merchants were happy to buy their plunder. It became the hub of a pirate network that included some of the most notorious pirates in history: Blackbeard, "Calico Jack" Rackam, Charles Vane and Bartholomew Roberts.
The growth of piracy led to a major surge in attacks in the Caribbean and along North America's Atlantic seaboard. With the fragile maritime economy of the Americas threatened with collapse, major ports were threatened and trade brought to a standstill, the British government finally declared war on the pirates. The Pirate Menace draws on extensive research, as well as a wide range of first-hand accounts, to produce a new history of the heyday of historical piracy.
Biografie
Angus Konstam ist ein angesehener Historiker, spezialisiert auf die Geschichte des Militärs und der Marine. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Artikel und Monographien, die sich mit dem weiten Feld der Weltgeschichte beschäftigen. Angus Konstam
The Pirate Menace
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