John Coakley is an historian of early America and the Atlantic world, focusing on maritime predation in the Caribbean. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of ‘“The Piracies of some Little Privateers’: Language, Law and Maritime Violence in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean,” Britain and the World, 13:1 (2020), 6-26. C. Nathan Kwan teaches at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Qing China’s maritime relations with the West. He is the author of “‘Barbarian Ships sail Freely about the Seas’: Qing Reactions to the British Suppression of Piracy in South China, 1841-1856,” Asian Review of World Histories, 8 (2020): 83-102. David Wilson is lecturer in maritime history at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests include early modern piracy, maritime law, and coastal communities. He is the author of Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants, and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2021).

• List of Abbreviations, Commonly Used in Notes, List of Tables, List of Maps, Introduction - John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan, David Wilson, SECTION I: Jurisdiction, Chapter One: Local Maritime Jurisdiction in the Early English Caribbean - John Coakley, Chapter Two: Primitive, Peregrinate, Piratical: Framing Southeast Asian Sea-Nomads in Nineteenth Century Colonial Discourse and Imperial Practice - Martin Müller, SECTION II: Practices, Chapter Three - Scots, Castilians, and Other Enemies: Piracy in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World - Simon Egan, Chapter Four - Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728 - Steven J. Pitt, Chapter Five: Pirate Encounters and Perceptions of Southern-Netherlandish Sailors on the North Sea & the Indian Ocean, 1704-1781 - Wim de Winter, SECTION III: Representations, Chapter Six: A Fellow! I think, in all Respects, worthy your Esteem and Favour: Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724-1734 - Rebecca James, Chapter Seven: Henry Glasby: Atypical Pirate or a Typical Pirate? - James Rankine, Chapter Eight, Our Affairs with the Pyratical States: The United States and the Barbary Crisis, 1784-1797 - Anna Diamantouli,Afterword - Claire Jowitt, Bibilography, Index.

John Coakley is an historian of early America and the Atlantic world, focusing on maritime predation in the Caribbean. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of ‘“The Piracies of some Little Privateers’: Language, Law and Maritime Violence in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean,” Britain and the World, 13:1 (2020), 6-26. C. Nathan Kwan teaches at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Qing China’s maritime relations with the West. He is the author of “‘Barbarian Ships sail Freely about the Seas’: Qing Reactions to the British Suppression of Piracy in South China, 1841-1856,” Asian Review of World Histories, 8 (2020): 83-102. David Wilson is lecturer in maritime history at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests include early modern piracy, maritime law, and coastal communities. He is the author of Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants, and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2021).

• List of Abbreviations, Commonly Used in Notes, List of Tables, List of Maps, Introduction - John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan, David Wilson, SECTION I: Jurisdiction, Chapter One: Local Maritime Jurisdiction in the Early English Caribbean - John Coakley, Chapter Two: Primitive, Peregrinate, Piratical: Framing Southeast Asian Sea-Nomads in Nineteenth Century Colonial Discourse and Imperial Practice - Martin Müller, SECTION II: Practices, Chapter Three - Scots, Castilians, and Other Enemies: Piracy in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World - Simon Egan, Chapter Four - Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728 - Steven J. Pitt, Chapter Five: Pirate Encounters and Perceptions of Southern-Netherlandish Sailors on the North Sea & the Indian Ocean, 1704-1781 - Wim de Winter, SECTION III: Representations, Chapter Six: A Fellow! I think, in all Respects, worthy your Esteem and Favour: Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724-1734 - Rebecca James, Chapter Seven: Henry Glasby: Atypical Pirate or a Typical Pirate? - James Rankine, Chapter Eight, Our Affairs with the Pyratical States: The United States and the Barbary Crisis, 1784-1797 - Anna Diamantouli,Afterword - Claire Jowitt, Bibilography, Index.

John Coakley is an historian of early America and the Atlantic world, focusing on maritime predation in the Caribbean. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of ‘“The Piracies of some Little Privateers’: Language, Law and Maritime Violence in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean,” Britain and the World, 13:1 (2020), 6-26. C. Nathan Kwan teaches at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Qing China’s maritime relations with the West. He is the author of “‘Barbarian Ships sail Freely about the Seas’: Qing Reactions to the British Suppression of Piracy in South China, 1841-1856,” Asian Review of World Histories, 8 (2020): 83-102. David Wilson is lecturer in maritime history at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests include early modern piracy, maritime law, and coastal communities. He is the author of Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants, and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2021).

• List of Abbreviations, Commonly Used in Notes, List of Tables, List of Maps, Introduction - John Coakley, C. Nathan Kwan, David Wilson, SECTION I: Jurisdiction, Chapter One: Local Maritime Jurisdiction in the Early English Caribbean - John Coakley, Chapter Two: Primitive, Peregrinate, Piratical: Framing Southeast Asian Sea-Nomads in Nineteenth Century Colonial Discourse and Imperial Practice - Martin Müller, SECTION II: Practices, Chapter Three - Scots, Castilians, and Other Enemies: Piracy in the Late Medieval Irish Sea World - Simon Egan, Chapter Four - Boston, Logwood, and the Rise and Decline of the Pirates, 1713 to 1728 - Steven J. Pitt, Chapter Five: Pirate Encounters and Perceptions of Southern-Netherlandish Sailors on the North Sea & the Indian Ocean, 1704-1781 - Wim de Winter, SECTION III: Representations, Chapter Six: A Fellow! I think, in all Respects, worthy your Esteem and Favour: Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724-1734 - Rebecca James, Chapter Seven: Henry Glasby: Atypical Pirate or a Typical Pirate? - James Rankine, Chapter Eight, Our Affairs with the Pyratical States: The United States and the Barbary Crisis, 1784-1797 - Anna Diamantouli,Afterword - Claire Jowitt, Bibilography, Index.