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Pillaging the Empire

Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

By: Kris E Lane,Kris Lane,Robert M. Levine

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Pillaging the Empire

Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750

By: Kris E Lane,Kris Lane,Robert M. Levine

Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world’s seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the perspectives of both pirates and their victims. Brushing aside the romantic legends of piracy, Kris Lane pays careful attention to the varied circumstances and motives that led to the rise of this bloodthirsty pursuit of riches, and places the history of piracy in the context of early modern empire building. This second edition of Pillaging the Empire has been revised and expanded to incorporate the latest scholarship on piracy, maritime law, and early modern state formation. With a new chapter on piracy in East and Southeast Asia, Lane considers piracy as a global phenomenon. Filled with colorful details and stories of individual pirates from Francis Drake to the women pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read, this engaging narrative will be of interest to all those studying the history of Latin America, the Atlantic world, and the global empires of the early modern era.

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Routledge

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1317524462

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Colour of Paradise

The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

By: Kris E. Lane

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Colour of Paradise

The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

By: Kris E. Lane

Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was—as it remains for all Muslims—the color of Paradise, reserved for the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks that funneled emeralds from backland South America to populous Asian capitals between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Lane reveals the bloody conquest wars and forced labor regimes that accompanied their production. It is a story of trade, but also of transformations—how members of profoundly different societies at opposite ends of the globe assigned value to a few thousand pounds of imperfectly shiny green rocks.

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299

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Yale University Press

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030016470X

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9780300164701

Quito 1599

City and Colony in Transition

By: Kris E. Lane

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Quito 1599

City and Colony in Transition

By: Kris E. Lane

Explores the dramatic colonial history of Ecuador and southern Colombia, fleshing out everyday life and individual exploits.

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316

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UNM Press

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082632357X

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9780826323576

Defending the Conquest

Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests

By: Bernardo de Vargas Machuca,Kris E. Lane

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Defending the Conquest

Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests

By: Bernardo de Vargas Machuca,Kris E. Lane

An English translation and critical edition of a refutation, written about 1603 (revised in 1612) by the soldier Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, of Bartolome de las Casas's famous Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1558)"--Provided by publisher. First published in 1879 as Apologâias y discursos de las conquistas occidentales.

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180

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Penn State Press

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0271029374

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9780271029375

Political Science in Theory and Practice: The Politics Model

The Politics Model

By: Kris E Lane

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Political Science in Theory and Practice: The Politics Model

The Politics Model

By: Kris E Lane

This text demonstrates that there is a politics model that unifies the discipline and structures its relationship to the other social sciences. It shows how this model underlies important works of applied research in all the main political science subfields.

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150

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Routledge

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1000149749

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9781000149746

Blood and Silver

A History of Piracy in the Caribbean and Central America

By: Kris E. Lane

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Blood and Silver

A History of Piracy in the Caribbean and Central America

By: Kris E. Lane

In this new and original study of piracy, Kris Lane looks at the often mixed motives behind the phenomenon and the lives of those involved. Rejecting the romantic myth of the Elizabethan swashbuckler, he reveals a world of violence, hardship and fanaticism, in which self-enrichment was an obsession. From the first corsairs of the 16th century to the last of the buccaneers, he traces the rise and fall of a dangerous profession which encompassed slave-running, smuggling and ship-wrecking.

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254

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Signal Books

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1902669010

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9781902669014

Potosi

The Silver City That Changed the World

By: Kris Lane

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Potosi

The Silver City That Changed the World

By: Kris Lane

For anyone who wants to learn about the rise and decline of Potosí as a city . . . Lane’s book is the ideal place to begin."—The New York Review of Books In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, making the Cerro Rico or "Rich Hill" and the Imperial Villa of Potosí instant legends, famous from Istanbul to Beijing. The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world's silver for a century, and even in decline, it remained the single richest source on earth. Potosí is the first interpretive history of the fabled mining city’s rise and fall. It tells the story of global economic transformation and the environmental and social impact of rampant colonial exploitation from Potosí’s startling emergence in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the nineteenth. Throughout, Kris Lane’s invigorating narrative offers rare details of this thriving city and its promise of prosperity. A new world of native workers, market women, African slaves, and other ordinary residents who lived alongside the elite merchants, refinery owners, wealthy widows, and crown officials, emerge in lively, riveting stories from the original sources. An engrossing depiction of excess and devastation, Potosí reveals the relentless human tradition in boom times and bust.

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272

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University of California Press

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0520383354

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9780520383357

School Violence Threat Management

A Practical Guide for Educators, Law Enforcement and Mental Health Professionals

By: Kris Mohandie

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School Violence Threat Management

A Practical Guide for Educators, Law Enforcement and Mental Health Professionals

By: Kris Mohandie

Offers a conceptual model of threat assessment that addresses the continuum of potential risk levels, and response options commensurate with the apparent risk.

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097031891X

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9780970318916

Blood and Silver

A History of Piracy in the Caribbean and Central America

By: Kris E. Lane

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A History of Piracy in the Caribbean and Central America

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Signal Books

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1902669010

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Colour of Paradise

The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

By: Kris Lane

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The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

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Tapping a wide range of sources, Kris Lane traces the complex web of global trading networks that funneled emeralds from backland South America to populous Asian capitals between the 16th and the 18th centuries.

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School Violence Threat Management

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