Spain and the sixteenth-century corsairs
Brothers Barbarossa and the Barbary Coast corsairs
Jambe de Bois and the first Caribbean corsairs
Contrabanding and the Treaty of Cateau-Cambreśis
Smugglers, pirates, and privateers: the Elizabethans
West country slave traders
San Juan de Uluá and aftermath
Drake and Elizabethan piracy
From the Low Countries to the high seas: the Dutch sea-rovers
Calvinism and competition at sea
Salt and sovereignty in the Caribbean
Piet Heyn and the Dutch West India Company
Dutch intruders in the Pacific
Seventeenth-century Caribbean buccaneers
Renegrades and runaways on Hispaniola and Tortuga
Port Royal, Jamaica: pirate haven
Henry Morgan and the Treaty of Madrid
Buccaneers as loggers and privateers
Buccaneers in the South Sea
John Narborough and the charlatan
Bartholomew Sharp: pirate captain of last resort
Second pirate cycle in the South Sea
Grogniet and Guayaquil, 1687
Captain Franco, shipwrecks, and contraband
Last buccaneers and pirate suppression
Henry Avery and Captain Kidd
Treasure wrecks and the Anglo-American freebooters
Table of early modern pirates and contemporary European monarchs.
