Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

by Virginia Lunsford-Poe, V Lunsford, V. Lunsford

This exciting scholarly work examines Dutch maritime violence in the seventeenth-century. With its flourishing maritime trade and lucrative colonial possessions, the young Dutch Republic enjoyed a cultural and economic pre-eminence, becoming the leading commercial power in the world. Dutch seamen plied the world's waters, trading, exploring, and colonizing. Many also took up pillaging, terrorizing their victims on the high seas and on European waterways...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134952980X
• ISBN13: 9781349529803
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"