Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates

Ritchie, Robert C

ISBN 10: 0674095014 ISBN 13: 9780674095014

Editorial: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986

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Hardbound with Dust Jacket. 306 pages with notes and index. Bound in black and red cloth with title information to spine in gold. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very bright and clean. Dust Jacket same but for slight rubbing to top corners. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

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Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates

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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

Fecha de publicaci�n

1986

ISBN 10

0674095014

ISBN 13

9780674095014

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Hardcover

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The legends that die hardest are those of the romantic outlaw, and those of swashbuckling pirates are surely among the most durable. Swift ships, snug inns, treasures buried by torchlight, palm-fringed beaches, fabulous riches, and, most of all, freedom from the mean life of the laboring man are the stuff of this tradition reinforced by many a novel and film.

It is disconcerting to think of such dashing scoundrels as slaves to economic forces, but so they were--as Robert Ritchie demonstrates in this lively history of piracy. He focuses on the shadowy figure of William Kidd, whose career in the late seventeenth century swept him from the Caribbean to New York, to London, to the Indian Ocean before he ended in Newgate prison and on the gallows. Piracy in those days was encouraged by governments that could not afford to maintain a navy in peacetime. Kidd's most famous voyage was sponsored by some of the most powerful men in England, and even though such patronage granted him extraordinary privileges, it tied him to the political fortunes of the mighty Whig leaders. When their influence waned, the opposition seized upon Kidd as a weapon. Previously sympathetic merchants and shipowners did an about-face too and joined the navy in hunting down Kidd and other pirates.

By the early eighteenth century, pirates were on their way to becoming anachronisms. Ritchie's wide-ranging research has probed this shift in the context of actual voyages, sea fights, and adventures ashore. What sort of men became pirates in the first place, and why did they choose such an occupation? What was life like aboard a pirate ship? How many pirates actually became wealthy? How were they governed? What large forces really caused their downfall?

As the saga of the buccaneers unfolds, we see the impact of early modern life: social changes and Anglo-American politics, the English judicial system, colonial empires, rising capitalism, and the maturing bureaucratic state are all interwoven in the story. Best of all, Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates is an epic of adventure on the high seas and a tale of back-room politics on land that captures the mind and the imagination.

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[A] fascinating true story--not of moonlit beaches and buried treasure but of political intrigue and complicated business deal-making, not of swashbucklers on the high seas but of men who went to sea to escape a stifling social order so rigid that even the fabrics they could wear were prescribed...[Ritchie] makes the shadowy, myth-laden figure of William Kidd a real person, and not without sympathy. Fascinating...Captain Kidd emerges as a very real historical person, the victim of shifts in English and colonial politics, and changes in mercantile, imperial and legal attitudes...Ritchie...has sorted out the conflicting evidence in a masterful way. The most detailed record I have ever seen of a pirate voyage, with its origins and aftermath; I doubt if there is another like it. Ritchie has also placed it in its historic context, describing the political, and especially the economic events that shaped piracy in its age of transition..."Captain Kidd" is a first-rate book. -- George MacDonald Fraser "Washington Post" A fascinating true story--not of moonlit beaches and buried treasure but of political intrigue and complicated business deal-making, not of swashbucklers on the high seas but of men who went to sea to escape a stifling social order so rigid that even the fabrics they could wear were prescribed... Ritchie makes the shadowy, myth-laden figure of William Kidd a real person, and not without sympathy. -- Jim Haskins "New York Times Book Review" conflicting evidence in a masterful way. especially the economic events that shaped piracy in its age of transition..."Captain Kidd" is a first-rate book. stifling social order so rigid that even the fabrics they could wear were prescribed...[Ritchie] makes the shadowy, myth-laden figure of William Kidd a real person, and not without sympathy.

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