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Piracy in World History

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Pirates, it is frequently claimed, have existed since the dawn of history,
as long as there has been traffic and commerce at sea.1 Presumably, the
origins of piracy would thus be sometime in the pre-historic past, when
people first took to the sea for commercial purposes, probably around eight
thousand years ago, along the coast of the Persian Gulf.2 Historical records
over close to three and half millennia, from ancient Egypt to the present,
seem to provide documentation of piratical activity from all around the
world. Piracy would appear to be ubiquitous across a very longue durée in
the history of humanity, and only with the projection of sea power by major
states and empires, whether ancient (when Rome or Srivijaya controlled
their adjacent seas) or modern (when Great Britain or the United States did
so) was piracy efficiently suppressed, at least temporarily.

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Call Number

913.6 STE p

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 2021

Collation

oil on canvas, 226 × 276 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978 94 6372 921 5

Classification

900.

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

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Edition

Cet.1

Subject(s)

Sejarah Dunia
piracy

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