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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy - Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner Part I. Political and Economic Entanglements 1 Pirate Marts and Knockdown Prices: Piracy, Class, and Economics in Early Modern England - Claire Jowitt 2 Piracy and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean: The British East India Companys Campaign against Atlantic and Angrian Maritime Predation, 1717-24 - David Wilson 3 Connecting Seas and Epochs: George Walker and Britains Privateers of Force, 1744-48 - David J. Starkey 4 Surviving Scarcity: Reconceptualizing Tunisian Corsairing during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries - Lama Elsharif Part II. Pirate Mobility 5 Interconnected Identities: Seventeenth-Century Barbary Pirates, Christian Captives, and Geo-Cultural Mobility - Jo Esra 6 Confinde to No Limits : John Ward, a Renegade Life in Print - Sue Jones 7 Wrestling with the Restless Sea : Piracy, European Expansion, and the Further Beyond - Kevin P. McDonald 8 Anchors Found on High Mountains : Terraqueous Traffic and Pirate Mobility in Walter Ralegh - Johannes Schlegel Part III. Literary Accounts 9 Setting the Stage: Transnational Piracy and the Ambiguity of Pirate Identity in the Stukeley Plays - Susanne Gruss 10 Commerce, Conflict, and Intercultural Contact: Figurations of Polyvalence in Thomas Heywoods The Fair Maid of the West, Part I - Marcus Hartner 11 From Captive to Privateer: William Rufus Chetwoods The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (1726) - Stefanie Fricke About the Contributors Index