CFP: The Problem of Piracy II: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Plunder by Sea across the World from the Ancient to the Modern
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Agnès Delahaye, « CFP: The Problem of Piracy II: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Plunder by Sea across the World from the Ancient to the Modern », Europe’s Association for Early American Studies, ID : 10670/1.ahjxgm
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4-6 August 2021, Online Conference The study of piracy brings with it several interpretational problems and questions. As a global phenomenon that has lasted millennia, even defining piracy historically is difficult. Its meaning depended on distinctive legal and customary perceptions of predation at sea by diverse communities, kingdoms, and empires. Scholarship on piracy and maritime predation has blossomed in recent years, but scholars still struggle to look at it with broad enough perspec...