November 1, 2009
Nota Bene: Marauders on the High Seas
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.
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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