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The devil's anarchy : The sea robberies of the most famous pirate Claes G. Compaen, and The very remarkable travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, buccaneer
- Title
- The devil's anarchy : The sea robberies of the most famous pirate Claes G. Compaen, and The very remarkable travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, buccaneer / Stephen Snelders.
- Author
- Snelders, Stephen, 1963-
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xi, 212 pages : illustrations; 18 cm
- Summary
- "In The Devil's Anarchy, Stephen Snelders examines rare 17th-century Dutch pirate histories to show the continuity of a shared pirate culture, embodied in its modes of organization, methods of distributing booty and resolving disputes, and tendencies for high living. Focussing on the careers of Claes Compaen, a cunning, charismatic renegado who claimed to have stolen more than 350 vessels, and Jan Erasmus Reyning, who hit the seas at age 12 and became a buccaneer in the pirate jungle of Santo Domingo, Snelders paints a salty picture of the excesses, contradictions, and liberatory joys of pirate life."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Compaan, Claas Gerritszoon, 1587-
- Reining, Jan Erasmus
- Sterre, David van der, -1691
- Begin, midden en eynde der zee-rooveryen van den Alderfameusten zee-roover Claes G. Compaen
- Pirates
- Pirates > Netherlands > History
- Pirates > History
- Anarchists > Netherlands > History
- Anarchism > History
- Netherlands > History > 17th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212).
- ISBN
- 1570271615 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- ocm56912415
- SCSB-5178622
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries