November 1, 2009

Nota Bene: Marauders on the High Seas

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The Granger Collection

William Kidd, also known as “Captain Kidd,” was a Scottish privateer executed in 1701 by the British for piracy.

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The Granger Collection

William Kidd, also known as “Captain Kidd,” was a Scottish privateer executed in 1701 by the British for piracy.

By Peter Monaghan

You don't have to be smitten by Johnny Depp to adore pirates.

Over the years, fleet after fleet of academic-press books about those fabled rogues have suggested that the imaginations of professors, too, may away to the high seas.

Indeed, the academic pirate book has a long history, with such high points as Philip Gosse's 1932 classic, The History of Piracy.

Pirates draw scholarly attention because, while they were often pests with scurvy and missing limbs,

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