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Pirates. --- Netherlands --- History --- Pirates --- Barbary corsairs --- Corsairs --- Freebooters --- Outlaws --- Buccaneers

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An in-depth look at pirates' physical and cultural environment

Pirates --- Buccaneers --- Filibusters (Buccaneers) --- Freebooters --- Naval history --- Voyages and travels --- Barbary corsairs --- Corsairs --- Outlaws --- History

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This is the story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. His name was Captain Sir Henry Morgan and, unlike his contemporaries, he was not hunted down and killed or captured by the authorities. Instead he was considered a hero in England and given a knighthood as well as being made governor of Jamaica. As Graham Thomas reveals in this fresh biography of this complex and intriguing character, Morgan was an exceptional military leader whose prime motivation was to amass as much wealth as he could by sacking and plundering settlements,

Buccaneers. --- Pirates --- Barbary corsairs --- Corsairs --- Freebooters --- Outlaws --- Buccaneers --- Filibusters (Buccaneers) --- Naval history --- Voyages and travels --- Morgan, Henry,

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Despite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of cultural mythology has arisen around them. Three hundred years of novels, plays, painting, and movies have etched into the popular imagination contradictory images of the pirate as both arch-criminal and anti-hero par excellence. How did the pirate-a real threat to mercantilism and trade in early-modern Britain-become the hypermasculine anti-hero familiar to us through a variety of pop culture outlets? How did the pirate's world, marked as it was by sexual and economic transgression, come to

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