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On the account : piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835
- Title
- On the account : piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835 / Joseph Gibbs.
- Author
- Gibbs, Joseph, 1965-
- Publication
- Eastbourne ; Portland OR : Sussex Academic Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 249 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Veterans in blood and murder : the mutiny aboard the Polly and the trial of Joseph Andrews (1766, 1769) -- "All Tory by God" : mutiny aboard the St. Louis -- "A heart hard enough to kill a man" : the Eliza mutiny and the trial of ¿three foreigners¿ (1799-1800) -- "The most abject slavery" : the United States and the Barbary pirates (1793-1804) -- "A horrible crime to think upon" : mutiny on the George Washington -- "The greatest villains that ever blackened the human character" : the privateers of the Gulf and Caribbean (1814-1821) -- "They took to their heels" : Kearny's enterprise at Cape Antonio (1821-1822) -- "Her red flag [was] nailed to the mast" : the campaign against piracy in the Gulf and Caribbean (1822-1825) -- "No evidence of a contrite heart" : the Vineyard mutiny and the piracy confessions of Charles Gibbs (1830-1831) -- "Demons in the shape of men" : the taking of the Mexican and its aftermath (1832-1835).
- Call Number
- JFE 12-4030
- ISBN
- 9781845194765 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1845194764 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011040270
- OCLC
- YBP 2011040270
- Author
- Gibbs, Joseph, 1965-
- Title
- On the account : piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835 / Joseph Gibbs.
- Imprint
- Eastbourne ; Portland OR : Sussex Academic Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-4030