{"product_id":"9780813069746-dead-mans-chest","title":"Dead Man's Chest","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploring the Archaeology of Piracy\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing discussions of evidence from South America, England, New England, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, this book presents diverse approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA global approach to better understanding piracy through archaeology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing discussions of newly discovered evidence from South America, England, New England, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, \u003ci\u003eDead Man’s Chest\u003c\/i\u003e presents diverse approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe case studies in this volume include medieval and post-medieval piracy in the Bristol Channel, illicit trade in seventeenth-century fishing stations in Maine, and the guerrilla tactics of nineteenth-century privateers and coastal bandits off the Gulf of Mexico Coast. Contributors reveal the story of a Dutch privateer who saved a ship from a storm only to take control of it, partnerships between pirates and Indigenous inhabitants along the Miskito coast, and new findings on the \u003ci\u003eSpeaker\u003c\/i\u003e—one of the first pirate ships to be archaeologically investigated—in Madagascar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs well as covering shipwrecks and other topics traditionally associated with piracy, several chapters look at pirate facilities on land and cultural interactions with nearby communities as reflected through archival documentation. As a whole, the volume highlights various ways to identify piracy and smuggling in the archaeological record, while encouraging readers to question what they think they know about pirates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Dr. Charles R. Ewen   Russell K. Skowronek   Yann von Arnim   Martijn van den Bel   Patrick J. Boyle   John de Bry   Alexandre Coulaud   Jessie Cragg   Lynn B. Harris   Geraldo J. S. Hostin   Coy Jacob Idol   Kimberly P. Kenyon   Patrick Lizé   Laurent Pavlidis  Jason T. Raupp   Bradley Rodgers   Nathalie Sellier-Ségard   Jean Soulat   Katherine D. Thomas   Michael Thomin   Megan Rhodes Victor   Kenneth S. Wild\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54853480350070,"sku":"9780813069746","price":34.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38144602_40afdeb4-34bd-429e-84e3-762022b261dc.jpg?v=1763753390","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780813069746-dead-mans-chest","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}