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The book personalizes the history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a port by focussing on the activities of three generations of one very successful merchant family.

Could a community without a central government avoid descending into chaos and rampant criminality? Could its economy grow and thrive without the intervening regulatory hand of the state? Could disputes between citizens be settled if there existed no state monopoly on legal judgments? Apparently, the answers to these questions are yes, yes, and yes. Indeed, if the strange and little-known case of the condominium of Neutral Moresnet - a tiny we...

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The book personalizes the history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a port by focussing on the activities of three generations of one very successful merchant family.

A universal test of great writers is the quality of their response to the human dilemma. Prophet in the Wilderness traces the development of that response in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martinez Estrada, from the first ambitious poems to its definitive expression in the essays and short stories. His theme is progressive disillusionment, in history and in personal experience, both of which are interpreted in his work as accumulat...

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Presents the history of the English merchant seaman in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - a period during which England rose to dominance in world commence and became the greatest naval power in the world. This work explores various aspects of the sailor's life: conditions of service, wealth and possessions, life aboard a ship, and more.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, treasure-hunting became a professional occupation. Presenting a story of a national obsession, this work features a history of a peculiarly English phenomenon - of outstanding bravery, of exceptional recklessness, and above all, of dreams of treasure.

Investigating the fascination pirates hold over the popular imagination, Earle takes the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoods and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture and death and the freedom of a short, violent life on the high seas.

Paperback edition of this bestselling account of 250 years of piracy from the 16th century to the hanging of the last pirate captain in Boston in 1835.