Virginia West Lunsford
Biographic Data
| ID | 10753378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia West Lunsford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia West |
| FAMILY NAME | Lunsford |
| SIGNATURE | LUNSFORD V W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands
A “Malicious Business”
F rom the early years of the Dutch Republic, the laws condemning and proscribing zeerooverij--piracy—were serious and manifold. The charter document of the five Admiralty colleges, drafted in 1597, explicitly forbade the crime. 1 In 1611, the States-General promulgated a general proclamation “against the Pirates,” the first sweeping regulation treating the misdeed. 2 Denouncing Dutch zeeroovers as “scum” and “rabble” who were “Enemies of the huma…
Piracy, The Dutch, and the Seventeenth-Century Seas
A bout a third of the way through Alexander Exquemelin’s The Buccaneers of America , 2 a surgeon’s famous account of his life among the seventeenth-century Caribbean buccaneers, the reader encounters a chilling and violent anecdote about one of the author’s more nasty brethren, the sadistic and inhumane French captain, François L’Olonnais (figure 4.1): The buccaneers... took a number of prisoners, whom they treated most cruelly, inflicting on the…
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Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands
A “Malicious Business”
F rom the early years of the Dutch Republic, the laws condemning and proscribing zeerooverij--piracy—were serious and manifold. The charter document of the five Admiralty colleges, drafted in 1597, explicitly forbade the crime. 1 In 1611, the States-General promulgated a general proclamation “against the Pirates,” the first sweeping regulation treating the misdeed. 2 Denouncing Dutch zeeroovers as “scum” and “rabble” who were “Enemies of the huma…
Piracy, The Dutch, and the Seventeenth-Century Seas
A bout a third of the way through Alexander Exquemelin’s The Buccaneers of America , 2 a surgeon’s famous account of his life among the seventeenth-century Caribbean buccaneers, the reader encounters a chilling and violent anecdote about one of the author’s more nasty brethren, the sadistic and inhumane French captain, François L’Olonnais (figure 4.1): The buccaneers... took a number of prisoners, whom they treated most cruelly, inflicting on the…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Maritime Security and History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anecdote (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Charter (1 work)