An historical study of piracy in the ancient Greek and Roman world.

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

A handpicked group of leading experts in the field of International Relations use maritime piracy as a means to expose the incongruities in our understanding of

Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent