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Public Executions and
Persecutions of Pirates
Optional Readings
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570 – 1740 by Mark G. Hanna
The Pirates’ Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History’s Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America by Douglas R. Burgess, Jr.
JA Sharpe, “Last Dying Speeches:” Religion, Ideology, and Public Execution in Seventeenth-Century England,” Past & Present 107:1 (May 1985), 144 – 167.
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh
Rebecca Simon, “The Problem and Potential of Piracy: Legal Changes and Emerging Ideas of Colonial Autonomy in the Early Modern British Atlantic, 1670 – 1730,” Journal of Maritime Research 18:2 (November 2016), 123 – 137
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