Black Flags, Blue Water - An Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Informationen zum Autor Eric Jay Dolin  is the best-selling and award-winning author of numerous works in maritime history, including Leviathan , Rebels at Sea , and Black Flags, Blue Waters . He lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Klappentext Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. "Deftly blending scholarship and drama" (Richard Zacks), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Through engrossing episodes of roguish glamour and extreme brutality, Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, among them the towering Blackbeard, the ill-fated Captain Kidd, and sadistic Edward Low, who delighted in torturing his prey. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Black Flags, Blue Waters is a "tour de force history" (Michael Pierce, Midwestern Rewind) of the seafaring outlaws whose raids reflect the precarious nature of American colonial life.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Jay Dolin, Dolin Eric Jay
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2019
• EAN: 9781631496226
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-622-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Liveright
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, maritime history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History of the Americas, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800