Author: Richard Rutherford-Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788437076
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A detailed examination of the obscure and mysterious aspect of maritime navigation, 1690-1730. Pirates sailed the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and cruised off Africa and India. How did they find their way to all these faraway places? R3707HB - $19.00
The Pirate Round
Author: Richard Rutherford-Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788437076
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A detailed examination of the obscure and mysterious aspect of maritime navigation, 1690-1730. Pirates sailed the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and cruised off Africa and India. How did they find their way to all these faraway places? R3707HB - $19.00
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788437076
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A detailed examination of the obscure and mysterious aspect of maritime navigation, 1690-1730. Pirates sailed the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and cruised off Africa and India. How did they find their way to all these faraway places? R3707HB - $19.00
The History of Piracy and Navigation
Author: Dr. Suk Kyoon Kim
Publisher: novum publishing
ISBN: 1642681369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Various types of pirates have existed throughout history, reflecting the social circumstances of their times. The product of international politics among maritime powers, they were more than merely outlaws who disturbed maritime trade, threatened the safety of shipping and committed brutal crimes. They have occasionally served as a proxy of state power or as resistance to oppressive state authority and exploitative social structures. Pirates were also an outcry for freedom against oppressive authority and brutal violence in the maritime world. Despite their social and historical context, however, the nature of pirates has remained unchanged: They are brutal and heinous criminals who plunder ships and inflict terrifying violence at sea.
Publisher: novum publishing
ISBN: 1642681369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Various types of pirates have existed throughout history, reflecting the social circumstances of their times. The product of international politics among maritime powers, they were more than merely outlaws who disturbed maritime trade, threatened the safety of shipping and committed brutal crimes. They have occasionally served as a proxy of state power or as resistance to oppressive state authority and exploitative social structures. Pirates were also an outcry for freedom against oppressive authority and brutal violence in the maritime world. Despite their social and historical context, however, the nature of pirates has remained unchanged: They are brutal and heinous criminals who plunder ships and inflict terrifying violence at sea.
Piracy in the Ancient World
Author: Henry Arderne Ormerod
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mediterranean Region
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mediterranean Region
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Persistent Piracy
Author: S. Amirel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137352868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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 Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137352868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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 Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea.
The History of Piracy and Navigation
Author: Suk Kyoon Kim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642681352
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Pirates have existed for millennia. Not just outlaws looting ships and committing crimes, pirates also fought for freedom from abusive authority. However, they are still at their core brutal criminals who plunder ships and inflict violence at sea.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642681352
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Pirates have existed for millennia. Not just outlaws looting ships and committing crimes, pirates also fought for freedom from abusive authority. However, they are still at their core brutal criminals who plunder ships and inflict violence at sea.
The History of Navigation
Author: Dag Pike
Publisher: Pen & Sword Maritime
ISBN: 9781526731692
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus. The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets out to record the development of navigational techniques from the earliest time, five millenniums ago. As explorers started to venture offshore into the unknown they had to rely on the sun and stars for direction. From this pioneers turned to mathematics, astrolobes, sextants and increasing accurate clocks to measure latitude and later longitude. More recently major breakthroughs with electronic navigation, GPS and other satellite systems have revolutionised travel. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on marine navigation, the author weaves a fascinating course through the successes and failures of mankind's quest to explore his world. The result is a thoroughly entertaining and informative work which has no rival.
Publisher: Pen & Sword Maritime
ISBN: 9781526731692
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus. The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets out to record the development of navigational techniques from the earliest time, five millenniums ago. As explorers started to venture offshore into the unknown they had to rely on the sun and stars for direction. From this pioneers turned to mathematics, astrolobes, sextants and increasing accurate clocks to measure latitude and later longitude. More recently major breakthroughs with electronic navigation, GPS and other satellite systems have revolutionised travel. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on marine navigation, the author weaves a fascinating course through the successes and failures of mankind's quest to explore his world. The result is a thoroughly entertaining and informative work which has no rival.
Piracy in World History Hb
Author: Hagerdal AMIRELL
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789463729215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
1. The present volume brings together some of the leading scholars of piracy and related forms of maritime violence in different global contexts, including East Asia, the Indian Ocean World, the Mediterranean and the Americas. 2. In this we bring the different geographic and thematic areas of study into mutual conversation. 3, We thus stimulate further explorations in the connective as well as the comparative aspects of piracy in long, global and colonial, historical perspective.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789463729215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
1. The present volume brings together some of the leading scholars of piracy and related forms of maritime violence in different global contexts, including East Asia, the Indian Ocean World, the Mediterranean and the Americas. 2. In this we bring the different geographic and thematic areas of study into mutual conversation. 3, We thus stimulate further explorations in the connective as well as the comparative aspects of piracy in long, global and colonial, historical perspective.
Global Maritime Safety & Security Issues and East Asia
Author: Suk Kyoon Kim
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004389903
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In Global Maritime Safety & Security Issues and East Asia, Suk Kyoon Kim offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on various issues of maritime safety and security, focusing on East Asia. Defining the concepts of maritime safety and security, the book examines important issues such the legal frameworks for maritime safety and security and IMO law-making; safety of navigation; port state control; maritime terrorism; SUA Convention regime; piracy; ISPS Code and port and container security; and PSI. The author further undertakes an exploration of the roles of coast guards in East Asia as maritime safety and security enforcers, and national maritime safety and security legislations in China, Japan and Korea.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004389903
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In Global Maritime Safety & Security Issues and East Asia, Suk Kyoon Kim offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on various issues of maritime safety and security, focusing on East Asia. Defining the concepts of maritime safety and security, the book examines important issues such the legal frameworks for maritime safety and security and IMO law-making; safety of navigation; port state control; maritime terrorism; SUA Convention regime; piracy; ISPS Code and port and container security; and PSI. The author further undertakes an exploration of the roles of coast guards in East Asia as maritime safety and security enforcers, and national maritime safety and security legislations in China, Japan and Korea.
Piracy and the Privatisation of Maritime Security
Author: Eugenio Cusumano
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030501566
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In response to pirate attacks in the Western Indian Ocean, countries worldwide have increasingly authorized the deployment of armed guards from private military and security companies (PMSCs) on merchant ships. This widespread trend contradicts states’ commitment to retain a monopoly on violence and discourage the presence of arms on civilian vessels. This book conceptualizes the extensive use of PMSCs as a form of institutional isomorphism, combining the functionalist, ideational, political and organizational arguments used to account for the privatization of security on land into a synthetic explanation of the commercialization of vessel protection.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030501566
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In response to pirate attacks in the Western Indian Ocean, countries worldwide have increasingly authorized the deployment of armed guards from private military and security companies (PMSCs) on merchant ships. This widespread trend contradicts states’ commitment to retain a monopoly on violence and discourage the presence of arms on civilian vessels. This book conceptualizes the extensive use of PMSCs as a form of institutional isomorphism, combining the functionalist, ideational, political and organizational arguments used to account for the privatization of security on land into a synthetic explanation of the commercialization of vessel protection.
Warez
Author: Martin Paul Eve
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1685710360
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites") in the mid- to late-1990s. The “Scene," as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its operations. The term “Warez" itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software." Taking a deep dive in the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, Warez describes the operations and infrastructures an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms. Even though forms of digital piracy are often framed within ideological terms of equal access to knowledge and culture, Eve uncovers in the Warez Scene a culture of competitive ranking and one-upmanship that is at odds with the often communalist interpretations of piracy. Broad in scope and novel in its approach, Warez is indispensible reading for anyone interested in recent developments in digital culture, access to knowledge and culture, and the infrastructures that support our digital age.
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1685710360
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites") in the mid- to late-1990s. The “Scene," as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its operations. The term “Warez" itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software." Taking a deep dive in the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, Warez describes the operations and infrastructures an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms. Even though forms of digital piracy are often framed within ideological terms of equal access to knowledge and culture, Eve uncovers in the Warez Scene a culture of competitive ranking and one-upmanship that is at odds with the often communalist interpretations of piracy. Broad in scope and novel in its approach, Warez is indispensible reading for anyone interested in recent developments in digital culture, access to knowledge and culture, and the infrastructures that support our digital age.