Buccaneers of the Caribbean : : How Piracy Forged an Empire / / Jon Latimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Latimer, Jon,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations and Maps --; Maps --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. A New World --; 2. Tobacco and Salt --; 3. Piet Hein --; 4. Brethren of the Coast --; 5. Sugar and Slaves --; 6. The Western Design --; 7. Buccaneer Islands --; 8. First Admiral --; 9. Portobelo --; 10. Maracaibo --; 11. Panama --; 12. French Service --; 13. Suppression --; 14. The End of the Buccaneers --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054172; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054172
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jon Latimer.

During the seventeenth century, sea raiders known as buccaneers controlled the Caribbean. Buccaneers were not pirates but privateers, licensed to attack the Spanish by the governments of England, France, and Holland. Jon Latimer charts the exploits of these men who followed few rules as they forged new empires. From the crash of gunfire to the billowing sail on the horizon, Latimer brilliantly evokes the dramatic age of the buccaneers.