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Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it: both the pirates or privateers themselves and the...

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For the first time, this volume brings together Columbus's own accounts of his first voyage along with the testimonials of the men who sailed with him.

Occasionally scholars discover lost primary sources that change our understanding of a place or period. James Richards's day book is such a find. This 325 year old ledger had been passed down through generations of a New England family and was stored in a pillowcase when it was handed to the historian James E. Wadsworth. This record of economic life reinforces and challenges our understanding of colonial America.

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an impotent society. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book challenges this myth by arguing that the Inquisition was integral to colonial society, reinforcing European social and religious values that were recreated in colonial Brazil.

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. In this new study, based on extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest, wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the Inquisition was an integral par...

James E. Wadsworth is associate professor of history at Stonehill College.