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Travers L The Notorious Edward Low (Hardback)
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- Objectstaat
- Publication Name
- The Notorious Edward Low
- Title
- The Notorious Edward Low
- EAN
- 9781594163982
- ISBN
- 9781594163982
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 05/05/2023
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Notorious Edward Low : Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy's Golden Age
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Westholme Publishing
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Modern / 18th Century, Military / Naval, Social History
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)--generally known in the Americas as Queen Anne's War--a dramatic, decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim. Often glamorized as the "Golden Age of Piracy," that period saw such colorful pirate leaders as Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, Charles Vane, and "Calico Jack" Rackham and his henchwomen Anne Bonney and Mary Read. Outdoing any of these, a Boston-based laborer, Edward Low, left his mark on pirate history as a "monster," the most vicious and sadistic raider of them all. Low's reputation, and those of the other pirates of the time, was crafted through newspaper accounts and popular literature, most notably The General History of the Pyrates , first published in 1724. Romanticized as anti-heroes and egalitarians in a monarchical world who had liberated themselves from the constraints of law and society ashore, these marauders came to enjoy an immortality bestowed upon them by generations of historians, novelists, and moviemakers. That persistent gloss masks a more sordid reality. In The Notorious Edward Low: Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy's Golden Age , historian Len Travers reexamines this critical period through the career of Low, a complicated pirate leader, and his nemesis, Peter Solgard, captain of the Royal Navy warship HMS Greyhound . By the time Solgard, aboard Greyhound , was tracking Low in 1723, the era's other notable pirates were gone--dead, captured, or disappeared. Drawing on previously unpublished Admiralty records and consulting both contemporary and modern chroniclers, Travers directs readers to much powerful testimony minimized in or excluded from histories of piracy's "Golden Age," leveling a critical eye at familiar sources too long accepted at face value. Travers demonstrates that, feared asthey certainly were, pirates were largely ordinary seamen trapped in desperate circumstances who, in the end, had little to show for their efforts. Contrary to popular portrayals, for pirates the second decade of the eighteenth century was a time of radically diminishing returns, scant treasure, buried or otherwise, and increasingly successful suppression by state authorities. One by one, safe havens shut out the sea-rovers, who with their depredations in America quickly squandered the sympathy and support they had once enjoyed among common folk. The Notorious Edward Low puts individual actors, from colonial governors to captains to common seamen, at center stage, and reveals how British authorities used new anti-piracy laws to reclaim a measure of authority over their fractious North American colonies--a compelling and meaningful story with its own brand of true-life swashbuckling on the high seas.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Westholme Publishing
ISBN-10
1594163987
ISBN-13
9781594163982
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27058372278
Product Key Features
Book Title
Notorious Edward Low : Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy's Golden Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 18th Century, Military / Naval, Social History
Publication Year
2023
Genre
History
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F106
Reviews
"Just when you thought nothing new could be said about pirates, along comes Len Travers, a masterful historian, with new evidence, new insights, and a swashbuckling good book. Pirate lovers will rejoice."-- Marcus Rediker , author of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age "Thoroughly researched and wonderfully told, this volume offers abundant new and telling information, not the least of which concerns the vicissitudes of enslaved Africans when their lives were drawn into the precarious sphere of sea banditry."-- Prof. Timothy D. Walker , editor, Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad, "Just when you thought nothing new could be said about pirates, along comes Len Travers, a masterful historian, with new evidence, new insights, and a swashbuckling good book. Pirate lovers will rejoice."-- Marcus Rediker , author of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Copyright Date
2023
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
910.45
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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