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Virginia Lunsford-Poe - Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands - 9781403966926 - V9781403966926
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Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

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Description for Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands Hardcover. Num Pages: 354 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 689.
This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading,exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways. Surprisingly, this story of Dutch freebooters and their depredations remains almost entirely untold until now. Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands presents new data and understandings of early modern piracy generally, and also sheds important ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403966926
SKU
V9781403966926
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

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

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