Pirates And Privateers From The Low Countries C1500 C1810

Author : Alex Ritsema
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409201716
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates and Privateers from the Low Countries, C.1500-C.1810 written by Alex Ritsema and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In novels, cartoons and films, "the" pirate had a wooden leg, a parrot on one of his shoulders, a patch before one of his eyes and buried his treasures on remote shores or islands... This book is not about fictional pirates but about real ones but their stories are equally spectacular. Some of them were not "pirates" but "privateers" equipped with a "letter of marque", an official license to attack enemies in times of war. Among other Dutch, Frisian and Flemish freebooters, this book includes: Grutte Pier, a folk hero defending the Frisian freedom against the Hollanders around 1520; the "Sea-Beggars" and their decisive role in the War of Dutch Independence (1568-1648); the Dunkirk raiders harassing merchant vessels from Amsterdam; adventurers joining the legendary pirates of Barbary or the Caribbean. This book not only deals with the freebooters themselves but also with their victims and foes, as well as corrupt shipowners and corrupt judges of Prize Courts.

Author : Mike Rendell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526731665
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates and Privateers in the 18th Century written by Mike Rendell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifestyle, looking at how the sinking of the Spanish treasure fleet in a storm off the coast of Florida led to a pirates gold rush; how the Kings Pardon was a desperate gamble which paid off and considers the role of individual island governors, such as Woodes Rogers in the Bahamas, in bringing piracy under control.The book also looks at how piracy has been a popular topic in print, plays, songs and now films, making thieves and murderers into swash-buckling heroes. It also considers the whole question of buried treasure and gives a lively account of many of the pirates who dominated the so-called Golden Age of Piracy.

Author : Kris E. Lane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pillaging the Empire written by Kris E. Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kris Lane weaves a tale of pirate activities in the Americas and of Spanish responses to those activities that reveals aspects of pirate life and culture not usually addressed in the standard histories of Latin America. He demythologizes the pirates of popular culture and places them in their broader historical context in which their activities are seen as more pecuniary than nationalistic. Lane presents a concise narrative of the seaborne attackers of Spain's colonial empire, and, to a much lesser extent, Portugal's. The book's claim to originality and to revisionism is that it presents a concise overview of piracy in American waters during the early modern period--including considerable discussion of the often overlooked piracy in the Pacific"--From a review on H-Net.

Author : David John Starkey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates and Privateers written by David John Starkey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or outside the law. In the 18th and 19th centuries such assaults reached new heights as the development of trans-oceanic empires led to an increase in the wealth and extent of sea-borne trade, and with it the potential for prize-taking.

Author : Thomas Carter
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572333314
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation to Vernacular Architecture written by Thomas Carter and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes is a manual for exploring and interpreting vernacular architecture, the common buildings of particular regions and time periods. Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley provide a comprehensive introduction to the field. » « Rich with illustrations and written in a clear and jargon-free style, Invitation to Vernacular Architecture is an ideal text for courses in architecture, material culture studies, historic preservation, American studies, and history, and a useful guide for anyone interested in the built environment. »--

Author : Sarah Pearson
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Buildings in a Changing World written by Sarah Pearson and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the theories and practices for analysing and recording the vast range of small historic buildings that constitute the core element of Britain's built landscape. It examines what has been done and what still needs to be achieved to preserve and understand our architectural heritage. Chapters explore the historic context of the discipline, the significant increase in the amount and type of building recording following new government policy guidance procedures, the necessity for informed conservation to rest on detailed understanding of particular buildings, the problems encountered by professional consultants, the development of new research techniques and applications, education, the role of voluntary recorders, and the pressing needs to better storage and access for records.

Author : Georgian Group (London, England). Symposium
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951746172
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgian Vernacular written by Georgian Group (London, England). Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Blaise E. Vyner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building on the Past written by Blaise E. Vyner and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David R. M. Gaimster
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Transition written by David R. M. Gaimster and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Transition forms a bridge between the Societies of Medieval Archaeoloy and Post-Medieval Archaeology and this volume originates in a conference that the two societies hosted at the British Museum in November 1996. The contents include: The great divide (Hugh Tait); Thoughts on periodisation and change (Paul Courtney); Archaeology of transition: a continental view (Frans Verhaeghe); The evaluation of historical archaeology (Helmut Hundsbichler); Rural settlements (Christopher Dyer); Innovation and resistance in tomb sculpture (Phillip Lindley); Whitehall Palace and Westminster 1400-1600 (Simon Thurley); New techniques and materials for architectural ornament (Maurice Howard); Gentry houses (Nicholas Cooper); Urban housing in England 1400-1600 (John Schofield); Vernacular architecture, ordinary people and everyday culture (Matthew Johnson); The changin technology of warfare (Jonathan Coad); English households in transition 1450-1550: the ceramic evidence (David Gaimster and Beverley Nenk); Food and diet in late medieval and early modern London: the archaeobotanical evidence (John Giorgi); Changing fashions in dress accessories 1400-1600 (Geoff Egan and Hazel Forsyth); Seals and heraldry 1400-1600 (John Cherry).

Author : Sean Rothery
Publisher : Lilliput Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to the Buildings of Ireland written by Sean Rothery and published by Lilliput Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the various types of building in both the North and South of Ireland, in towns villages and the countryside, this work aims to help readers to identify buildings and establish their history and purpose. Buildings are therefore identified by type, location and function. The focus is on the small everyday buildings of Ireland - dwellings, workplaces, churches, schools and other local symbols of administration and institution. Great works of architecture, the large country house and the monumental architecture of the city have been omitted, except where they are used to illustrate historical development.