Umfang:
Online-Ressource (266 p.)
Ausgabe:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9780814712351
Inhalt:
Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world-famous amusement park ride. In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition , historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfillment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other all- male institutions su
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION; INTRODUCTION; ONE SODOMY AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND; TWO TO TRAIN UP A BUCCANEER; THREE THE CARIBBEE ISLES; FOUR BUCCANEER SEXUALITY; FIVE THE BUCCANEER COMMUNITY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; INDEX;
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ISBN 9780814739228
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ISBN 9780814712368
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition : English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
