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On the Account
Joseph Gibbs
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Description for On the Account
Paperback. Comprises of original monographs, handbills, trial records, newspaper articles, and official reports that deal with piracy in and involving the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This title annotates and explains these records in order to clarify the era's historical, legal, literary, and nautical references. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 486.
In addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorded in the Age of Sail. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to many of the original materials about those who went "on the account" (a classic euphemism for piracy) to deliver an engaging, closely interpreted anthology of seven decades of primary sources. The text comprises original monographs, handbills, trial records, newspaper articles, and official reports that deal with piracy in and involving the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Joseph Gibbs annotates and ... Read more
In addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorded in the Age of Sail. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to many of the original materials about those who went "on the account" (a classic euphemism for piracy) to deliver an engaging, closely interpreted anthology of seven decades of primary sources. The text comprises original monographs, handbills, trial records, newspaper articles, and official reports that deal with piracy in and involving the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Joseph Gibbs annotates and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194765
SKU
V9781845194765
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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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