Pirates, Guns, and Empires

1 Unit · Undergraduate

This course examines piracy in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, and China Seas from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Figures discussed include Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, Barbarossa, Wang Zhi, and Zheng Yi Sao. Topics covered include pirate codes, pirate mythology, pirate economics, and pirate hunting.