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Chapter One The Pirate Ship |
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The work-seahorses of ages, from coracle to speedboat |
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Chapter Two The Ancient World |
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The Cilicians and Pompey the Great |
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Chapter Three Into the Middle Ages |
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Piracy in the Byzantine empire |
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Vikings, Balts, and northern European pirates |
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Privateers of the Hundred Years War |
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Chapter Four Pirates of the Barbary Coast |
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Chapter Five War on the Spanish Main |
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Discovery of the New World |
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Pedro de Menendez de Avilles |
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Chapter Six A Piece of the Action |
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The story of buccaneers---Hispaniola and Tortuga |
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Bartolomeo el Portugues and Rock Braziliano |
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Michel de Grammont, Laurens de Graaf, and Nickolaas van Hoorn |
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Chapter Seven The Most Notorious Pyrates |
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The "Golden Age" of piracy in the Indian Ocean |
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Captain Charles Johnson's influence |
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The East India Companies and the African slave trade |
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Thomas Tew and Benjamin Fletcher |
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Edward England and John Taylor |
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The Angrian Indian pirates |
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Chapter Eight And More Notorious Pyrates |
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The "Golden Age" of piracy in the Atlantic Ocean |
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Woodes Rogers throws out the pirates |
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"Calico" Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read |
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Chapter Nine Violence and Savage Justice |
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Curbing piracy of the Golden Age |
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Chapter Ten Everyone Hates Britain |
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French and American privateers |
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The great privateer ships of Baltimore |
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Chapter Eleven The Last American Pirates |
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Jean Laffite and Louis-Michel Aury |
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David Porter clears the pirates |
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Chapter Twelve Piracy in the Far East |
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Ching Yih and Ching Yih Sao |
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Piracy in the East Indies |
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Chapter Thirteen Home, Sweet Home |
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Pirate havens and piracy in the modern world |
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Chapter Fourteen Myths, Manners, Codes |
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Evolution of the romantic pirate myth in fiction and movies |
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The pirate code---more a set of guidelines? |
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