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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: There and Here -- Part I: Dispatches from The First America -- Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell -- Chapter 2: Key to the Indies -- Chapter 3: Copper Virgin -- Part II: A Colony Worth a Kingdom -- Chapter 4: Havana for Florida -- Chapter 5: Most Favored Nation -- Chapter 6: Sugar's Revolution -- Part III: An Empire for Slavery -- Chapter 7: Adams's Apple -- Chapter 8: Torture Plots -- Chapter 9: Dreams of Dominion -- Chapter 10: Civil War Journeys -- Part IV: ¡Cuba Libre! -- Chapter 11: Slave, Soldier, Citizen -- Chapter 12: A Revolution for the World -- Part V: American Interregnum -- Chapter 13: A War Renamed -- Chapter 14: Island Occupied -- Part VI: Strange Republic -- Chapter 15: Empire of Sugar -- Chapter 16: City of Dreams -- Chapter 17: Fratricide -- Chapter 18: Boom, Crash, Awake -- Part VII: Republic, Take Two -- Chapter 19: Authentic Masses -- Chapter 20: New Charter -- Chapter 21: Suitcases -- Part VIII: Origin Stories -- Chapter 22: Centennial Spirit -- Chapter 23: Insurrectionary Line -- Chapter 24: The Mountains Rise -- Part IX: The Revolution Begins Now! -- Chapter 25: First Time -- Chapter 26: Radical Nonstop -- Part X: Confrontation -- Chapter 27: Battle -- Chapter 28: Brink -- Part XI: Hearts and Minds -- Chapter 29: New People? -- Chapter 30: New Americans? -- Chapter 31: Other Cubas? -- Part XII: Departures -- Chapter 32: Special Years -- Chapter 33: Open and Shut -- Epilogue: If Monuments Could Speak -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Image Credits -- Copyright.

"Some epic fails are world famous. Many people have heard of the sinking of the Titanic and the burning of the Hindenburg. But not everyone knows about the Great Smog, a London-based air pollution disaster that took thousands of lives. Learn about some of history's greatest failures--the famous and the lesser known--and why they happened"--

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'.