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On the Account in the Golden Age
Joseph Gibbs
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Description for On the Account in the Golden Age
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 174 x 16. Weight in Grams: 488.
Piracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colourful set of modern media archetypes. The reality, however, was usually more ugly and frequently lethal. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to original memoirs, monographs, newspaper articles, and trial records to present a stark picture of piracy in the era of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ann Bonny and Mary Read. A "prequel" to Gibbs' well received On the Account: Piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835, this book similarly presents primary sources chosen for authenticity. The contents are ... Read more
Piracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colourful set of modern media archetypes. The reality, however, was usually more ugly and frequently lethal. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to original memoirs, monographs, newspaper articles, and trial records to present a stark picture of piracy in the era of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ann Bonny and Mary Read. A "prequel" to Gibbs' well received On the Account: Piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835, this book similarly presents primary sources chosen for authenticity. The contents are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196172
SKU
V9781845196172
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About Joseph Gibbs
Journalist and historian Joseph Gibbs is Professor of Mass Communication at the American University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates). He is the author of Gorbachev's Glasnost (1999); the Civil War regimental history Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh (2002); and the maritime histories Dead Men Tell No Tales (2007) and On the Account (2012). He holds a doctorate from Boston ... Read more
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