Piracy in the Americas to 1750

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Who were the "golden age" pirates and who were their main victims? What tactics did pirates use and what was done to stop them? How was piracy related to imperial expansion and resistance to it? How did the golden age pirates come to be lasting iconic cultural figures? Piracy in the Americas traces the rise and fall of sea predators in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from the 16th to 18th centuries.