FYSM 153 - Pirates and Bucaneers Seaborne Terrorism in the Early Modern Period

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Trinity College

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Marauding seafarers pillaged the world's oceans for more than two centuries after the voyages of Christopher Columbus. These dropouts from early modern society were a mix of reckless adventurers, free thinkers, and sexual rebels, as well as obsessive psychopaths grasping at quick fortunes. Although some were compassionate and even honorable men (and women), all were criminals facing certain death if captured. However we choose to judge them, the pirates and buccaneers of the early modern period played a key role in shaping the political, economic, and social structure of the New World. This seminar will sort out the myths and realities of the "Golden Age of Piracy." After critically examining romantic nineteenth-century interpretations of piracy, we will employ a rich body of historical evidence to reconstruct the multiple contexts within which piracy and buccaneering actually operated. Topics not usually associated with piracy (the Reformation, for example) will be central to this process of discovery. To understand the pirates and buccaneers of the early modern period, we must first enter the world that produced them 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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