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What can today's corporate raiders learn from the scourge of the high seas? A lot, as it turns out! Pirates have a surprising amount to teach about building better organizations, promoting diversity in the workplace, and creating powerful brands, among many other business lessons. Curious to hear more? Then sign up for Professor Blackbeard's Management 101 class. And don't be late. He's got a hell of a temper. Princeton Shorts are brief selections taken from influential Princeton University Press books and produced exclusively in ebook format. Providing unmatched insight into importan

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Pirate World; 2 From Classical Piracy to the Medieval Mediterranean; 3 Piracy in the Northern World; 4 The Elizabethan Sea Rovers and the Jacobean Pirates; 5 Buccaneers of the Caribbean; 6 The Madagascar Men; 7 Death to the Pirates; 8 The Barbary Corsairs of North Africa; 9 Pirates of the Eastern Seas; 10 The Road to Modern Piracy; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Definitions; List of Illustrations; Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Copyright

This book is based on contemporaneous accounts from both pirates and their victims. An erudite explanation of everything piratical, this book portrays the pirates, their weapons, their ships, their victims and the historical background to all the saltwater tales of both pirates and those in the navy. The exploits of the most famous pirates are also recounted here, from the cold-hearted ruthlessness of Blackbeard to the derring-do of Bartholomew Roberts, whose views were summed up by his motto: 'A merry life, and a short one'.

Modern science and technology have produced and will continue to produce new phenomena calling for new rules of law. Among these phenomena are the so-called "pirate" broadcasting stations, moored or installed outside territorial waters so as to escape the control of states. This new phenomenon has made its appearance in particular in Northwest Europe. It is natural, then, that states whose interests are actually or potentially adversely affected by such stations should contemplate what measures of protection are possible in fact and permissible in law.

If we are successfully to relate our work with the main body of Economic History, we must be able to show the fundamental relationship between quantitative analysis and more conventional methods of economic historians. The historian reconstructs events of the past, and with them attempts to understand the institutions and modes of behavior associated with those events. He seeks to construct a consistent story revealing the fundamental nature and meaning to us of the past, thus creating insight into the past and understanding of it—something considerably beyond a mere account of what probably happened. However, this story must be based upon, and be consistent with, the reconstructed events of the past, "what probably happened."

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part I Introductory -- I. An Outline Map -- II. Dates and Time Divisions -- III. The Arrangement of This Volume -- Part II Employment -- I. Post-Armistice Contraction in Employment -- II. The Transfer of Work-People from War to Peace Employment -- III. The Course of Employment Throughout Our Period -- IV. The Doldrums and the Intractable Million -- Part III Production -- I. The Course of Physical Production Over the Boom, Slump and Doldrums