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Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition

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Availability:In StockContributor:B. R. BurgSeries:English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century CaribbeanPublish date:1995-03-01Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9780814712368ISBN-10:814712363UPC:9780814712368Book Category:Social Science, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:Men's Studies, Sexuality, Gender StudiesSize:8.98 x 5.90 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCS694E4RV

Explores the sexual world of the one of the most fabled and romanticized character in history--the pirate

Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world-famous amusement park ride.

In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfillment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other all- male institutions such as prisons, for it existed not within a regimented structure of rule, regulations, and oppressive supervision, but instead operated in a society in which widespread toleration of homosexuality was the norm and conditions encouraged its practice.

In his new introduction, Burg discusses the initial response to the book when it was published in 1983 and how our perspectives on all-male societies have since changed.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9780814712368ISBN-10:814712363UPC:9780814712368Book Category:Social Science, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:Men's Studies, Sexuality, Gender StudiesSize:8.98 x 5.90 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCS694E4RV
Burg, B. R.: - B. R. Burg is Professor of History at Arizona State University and the author of Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition.
Publisher: New York University Press

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2nd Revised Edition

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B. R. Burg

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