Crisis And Legitimacy In Atlantic American Narratives Of Piracy

Author : Alexandra Ganser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030436230

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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy by Alexandra Ganser Pdf

This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.

Author : Alexandra Ganser
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303043625X

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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy by Alexandra Ganser Pdf

This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.

Author : Holger Briel,Michael High,Markus Heidingsfelder
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781802076622

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The Piracy Years by Holger Briel,Michael High,Markus Heidingsfelder Pdf

The Piracy Years: Internet File Sharing in a Global Context is the first collection to provide an overview of digital piracy’s recent past and its potential futures. Combining research essays, interviews, and overviews, the volume brings together leading scholars and infamous digital pirates from China, Germany, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In June 1999, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing website Napster transformed the availability of online content, but the site was quickly sued into oblivion. Despite the highly publicised shutdowns of a number of P2P websites, many continue to thrive, and digital piracy has become a global phenomenon. This book argues that any future media theory and research will have to contend with such web practices remaining an integral and politically formative part of the Internet. Offline and online piracies thrive on technological affordances in opposition to corporate efforts – in music, film, publishing, and academia – to label them as threatening to the economy and society. Therefore, this book explores piracy as a phenomenon navigating the conventions, norms, and boundaries of legality in digital cultures. Pirate networked sociabilities work within and outside the fringes of market economy through the lens of institutional and discursive power. By creating new ways that keep society moving and from stagnation, they ensure its continued existence - including the survival of the very areas they attack. The Piracy Years is an essential resource for researchers, post-graduate students, and anyone interested in the global spread and ever-increasing importance of digital piracy.

Author : Leopold Lippert,Ralph J. Poole
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783839452530

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The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater by Leopold Lippert,Ralph J. Poole Pdf

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the American theater emerged as a crucial cultural space for debates around gender stereotypes, gendered conduct, sexual desire, the politics of intimacy and domesticity, female authorship, as well as the complex intersections of gender and other markers of cultural difference, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, or nation. This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in this period. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors and more obscure theatrical practices.

Author : Nicole Poppenhagen,Jens Temmen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780429821509

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Across Currents: Connections Between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific Studies by Nicole Poppenhagen,Jens Temmen Pdf

This book explores connections between Atlantic studies and (trans)Pacific studies, including the potential discursive, topical, and historical overlaps of the two fields. It carves out mutual concerns and theoretical affinities, but also divergent approaches and differences. While acknowledging the fundamental differences that characterize the individual fields, the essays in this volume examine how both Atlantic and (trans)Pacific studies are part of global currents of political, activist, artistic, economic, and academic exchange. This volume brings together voices from Europe, North America, and the Pacific with disciplinary backgrounds in history, culture, and literature. Directed at scholars with a background in (trans)Pacific and/or Atlantic studies, this collection is an attempt to stimulate exchange between the two fields, to intensify their impact within the current transnational focus of literary and cultural studies, to encourage the questioning of well-mapped paths of inquiry, and to outline new theoretical approaches to both fields. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Atlantic Studies.

Author : Angela C. Sutton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781633888456

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Pirates of the Slave Trade by Angela C. Sutton Pdf

No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental impact on British colonies and the future of slavery in America. Pirates of the Slave Trade follows three fascinating figures whose fates would violently converge: John Conny, a charismatic leader of the Akan people who made lucrative deals with pirates and smugglers while fending off British and Dutch slavers; the infamous pirate Black Bart, who worked his way from an anonymous navigator to one of the British Empire’s most notorious enemies in the region; and naval captain Chaloner Ogle, tasked by the Crown with hunting down and killing Black Bart at all costs. At the Battle of Cape Lopez, these three men and the massive historical forces at their backs would finally find each other—and the world would be transformed forever. In this landmark narrative history, historian Angela Sutton outlines the complex network of trade routes spanning the Atlantic Ocean trafficked by agents of empire, private merchants, and brutal pirates alike. Drawing from a wide range of primary historical sources, Sutton offers a new perspective on how a single battle played a pivotal role in reshaping the trade of enslaved people in ways that affect America to this day. Between its engaging narrative style filled with swashbuckling naval battles and tales of adventure at sea, its wide array of rigorous and detailed research, and its implications toward modern America, Pirates of the Slave Trade is an essential addition to every history reader’s shelves.

Author : Mark Chadwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004390461

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Piracy and the Origins of Universal Jurisdiction by Mark Chadwick Pdf

In Piracy and the Origins of Universal Jurisdiction, Mark Chadwick relates a colourful account of how and why piracy on the high seas came to be considered an international crime subject to the principle of universal jurisdiction, prosecutable by any State in any circumstances.

Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112002081575

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FANNY CAMPBELL, THE FEMALE PIRATE CAPTAIN by Maturin Murray Ballou Pdf

Author : Soner Cagaptay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786722362

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The New Sultan by Soner Cagaptay Pdf

In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Since 2002, Erdo?an has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military and diplomatic means to solidify Turkey as a regional power. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent - scores of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and many of the highest-ranking military officers arrested. In some senses, the nefarious and failed 2016 coup has given Erdo?an the licence to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a 'strongman'. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at Erdo?an's roots in Turkish history, what he believes in and how he has cemented his rule, as well as what this means for the world. The book will also unpick the 'threats' Erdogan has worked to combat - from the liberal Turks to the Gulen movement, from coup plotters to Kurdish nationalists - all of which have culminated in the crisis of modern Turkey.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821384404

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World Development Report 2011 by World Bank Pdf

The 2011 WDR on Conflict, Security and Development underlines the devastating impact of persistent conflict on a country or region's development prospects - noting that the 1.5 billion people living in conflict-affected areas are twice as likely to be in poverty. Its goal is to contribute concrete, practical suggestions on conflict and fragility.

Author : Alexander O. Exquemelin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780486138695

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The Buccaneers of America by Alexander O. Exquemelin Pdf

Fascinating chronicle of the bands of plundering sea rovers who roamed the Caribbean and coastlines of Central America in the 17th century. Includes exploits of the infamous Henry Morgan and his burning of Panama City.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486131948

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A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe Pdf

Considered the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century, this fascinating history by the author of Robinson Crusoe profiles the deeds of Edward (Blackbeard) Teach, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, others.

Author : Stefan Eklöf Amirell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484213

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Pirates of Empire by Stefan Eklöf Amirell Pdf

This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Michel Maxwell Philip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600055651

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Emmanuel Appadocca; or, Blighted life by Michel Maxwell Philip Pdf

Author : Kenneth Pomeranz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217185

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The Great Divergence by Kenneth Pomeranz Pdf

A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz’s comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence—the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia’s economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers.