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HIST J300 Global Piracy

Recommended resources and search strategies for Amy Ransford's HIST-J 300 course

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In a rush? Use the tabs below to quickly access recommended search tools and resources. 

Ready to dive deeper? Use the tabs on the left to explore and learn more about a wide variety of search tools and strategies to locate books and ebooks, background information, primary sources, and secondary sources. Finally, access helpful guidance on academic paper writing. 

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Quick start resources

If you are just starting a research project and need to know some basic information to get started, encyclopedias and historical dictionaries are great tools.

Most databases allow you click a box with a name like "scholarly articles," which does a reasonably good job of limiting your results to high-quality, academic articles.

Featured Books & eBooks

Piracy in World History (eBook)

The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire (eBook)

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810: A Short History with Documents (eBook)

Pirates in History and Popular Culture (eBook)

Women of Piracy (eBook)

Pirate Hunting: The Fight Against Pirates, Privateers, and Sea Raiders from Antiquity to the Present (eBook)

The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century​​​​​​​ (eBook)

Pirates, Prostitutes and Pullers: Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History of Southeast Asia (Print)

Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World​​​​​​​ (eBook)

Piracy in the Early Modern Era: An Anthology of Sources ​​​​​(eBook)

The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates​​​​​​​ (eBook)

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean (Print)

Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa (Print)

Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean (Print)

The War Against the Pirates: British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century (Print)

British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730 (eBook)

Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders (eBook)

The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept (eBook)

The New Pirates: Modern Global Piracy from Somalia to the South China Sea (Print)

Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750 (eBook)

Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean, 1550-1810 (eBook)