GRC20240 Piracy in World History General Reading List
There is no set book, but the following are highly recommended:
• Tim Travers, Pirates: A History (2007), The History Press, Paperback edition 2009, ISBN 978-0752448527.
• C. R. Pennell ed., Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader (2001), New York University Press, Paperback edition ISBN 978-0814766781.
Also very useful are:
• Stefan Eklöf Amirell & Leos Müller eds., Persistent Piracy: Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Global Historical Perspective (2014), Palgrave Macmillan, Hardback edition, ISBN 978-1137352859.
• Joel Baer, Pirates of the British Isles (2005), Tempus, Hardback edition ISBN 978-0752423043.
• David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (2006), Random House, Paperback edition, ISBN 978-0812977226 [Originally published as Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality, 1995].
• Philip de Souza, Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World (1999), Cambridge University Press, Paperback edition 2002, ISBN 978-0521012409.
• Peter Lehr, Pirates: A New History from Vikings to Somali Raiders (2019) Yale UP, Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-18074-9.
• Grace Moore, ed., Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century; Swashbucklers and Swindlers (2011), Routledge, Paperback edition 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-25187-8.
• Amedeo Policante, The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept History (2015) Routledge, Paperback edition 2016, ISBN 978-1138211308.
• Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (2004) verso, Paperback edition 2005, ISBN 978-0807050255.
• Michael J. Struett, Jon D. Carlson & Mark T. Nance, eds., Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance (2013), Routledge, Paperback edition 2014, ISBN 978-1138015753.
• Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates, 1724, and numerous later editions.
Specific bibliographies will be provided for lectures and seminars. PDF copies of key items will be made available via Brightspace.
Associate Professor Philip de Souza, UCD School of Classics, Module Co-ordinator
philip.desouza@ucd.ie