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X marks the spot : the archaeology of piracy
- Title
- X marks the spot : the archaeology of piracy / edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Charles R. Ewen.
- Publication
- Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2006.
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- Description
- xxvi, 339 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Charles R. Ewen -- PART 1. PIRATE LAIRS -- Pirates and merchants: Port Royal, Jamaica / Donny L. Hamilton -- On the trail of Jean Lafitte / Joan M. Exnicios -- Contraband traders, lawless vagabonds, and the British settlement and occupation of Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras / J. David McBride -- A mariner's Utopia: pirates and logwood in the Bay of Honduras / Daniel Finamore -- PART 2. PIRATE SHIPS AND THEIR PREY -- Piracy in the Indian Ocean: Mauritius and the pirate ship Speaker / Patrick Lizé -- Christopher Condent's Fiery Dragon: investigating an early eighteenth-century pirate shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar / John de Bry -- The pirate ship Whydah / Christopher E. Hamilton -- The pirate ship Queen Anne's Revenge / Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing -- The Beaufort inlet shipwreck artifact assemblage / Wayne R. Lusardi -- Going to see the varmint: piracy in myth and reality on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, 1785-1830 / Mark J. Wagner, Mary R. McCorvie -- Identifying the victims of piracy in the Spanish Caribbean / Russell K. Skowronek, Charles R. Ewen -- PART 3. PIRATES IN FACT AND FICTION -- Pirate imagery / Lawrence E. Babits ... [et al.] -- X marks the spot - or does it?: anthropological insights into the origins and continuity of fiction and fact in the study of piracy / Russell K. Skowronek.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-3741
- ISBN
- 0813028752 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2005045656
- OCLC
- 61821886
- Title
- X marks the spot : the archaeology of piracy / edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Charles R. Ewen.
- Imprint
- Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2006.
- Series
- New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index.
- Added Author
- Skowronek, Russell K.Ewen, Charles R., 1956-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-3741