Piracy an Empire – Divorcing fact from fiction
About this episode
The episode explores the real and fictional representations of pirates and their impact on European maritime empires.
Pantomime villains, box office gold and famous (or infamous) shadowy figures of fiction and non-fiction, pirates are familiar stereotypes in popular media. But these common images hide a critically important group of men (and occasionally women) who were socially, economically and politically significant in shaping the European maritime empires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... Read more
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