Cutting Out and Taking Liberties: Australia's Convict Pirates, 1790–1829

Autor: Ian Duffield
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: International Review of Social History. 58:197-227
ISSN: 1469-512X
0020-8590
Popis: The 104 identified piratical incidents in Australian waters between 1790 and 1829 indicate a neglected but substantial and historically significant resistance practice, not a scattering of unrelated spontaneous bolts by ships of fools. The pirates’ ideologies, cultural baggage, techniques, and motivations are identified, interrogated, and interpreted. So are the connections between convict piracy and bushranging; how piracy affected colonial state power and private interests; and piracy's relationship to “age of revolution” ultra-radicalism elsewhere.
Databáze: OpenAIRE