Piracy and privateering in the golden age Netherlands.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: November 1, 2005 | Copyright information

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Piracy and privateering in the golden age Netherlands.

Lunsford, Virginia West.

Palgrave Macmillan

2005

354 pages

$65.00

Hardcover

DJ158

Lunsford (history, US Naval Academy) offers considerable factual information about Dutch privateering from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries, and introduces some of the f...

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