HIST 5234 - Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course focuses on the history of piracy in the Americas during the Golden Age of Piracy, a period that ranges from European contact to the mid-1700s. It is an age marked by exploration, colonization, overseas trade, endemic religious conflicts, expansive empires, and refractory fiefdoms. Spain and Portugal began the exploration, overseas trade and conquest of this period, but their successes quickly led their northern neighbors, particularly the French, English, and Dutch, to cast their covetous eyes upon slow-moving, inbound treasure fleets of their southern neighbors; creating an elaborate game between predators and prey. The Interactions that developed between predators and prey will be the primary subject of this course.

Cross Listing(s): HIST 5234G.