Persistent Piracy

Introduction: Persistent Piracy in World History; Stefan Eklöf Amirell and Leos Müller 1. Piracy in Classical Antiquity: The Origins and Evolution of the Concept; Philip de Souza 2. Ship-Men and Slaughter-Wolves: Pirate Polities in the Viking Age; Neil Price 3. Violence, Protection, and Commerce: Corsairing and ars piratica in the Early Modern Mediterranean; Wolfgang Kaiser and Guillaume Calafat 4. A Hokkien Maritime Empire in the East and South China Seas, 1620–83; James K. Chin 5. Maritime Violence and State Formation in Vietnam: Piracy and the Tay Son Rebellion, 1771–1802; Robert J. Antony 6. A Persistent Phenomenon: Private Prize-Taking in the British Atlantic World, c.1540–1856; David J. Starkey and Matthew McCarthy 7. Trade for Bullion to Trade for Commodities and 'Piracy': China, the West and the Sulu Zone, 1768–1898; James Francis Warren 8. Piracy, Security and State Formation in the Early Twenty-first Century; Stig Jarle Hansen