Pirates and Privateers
The History of Maritime Piracy

Cindy Vallar, Editor & Reviewer
P.O. Box 425, Keller, TX  76244-0425

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Articles

Argyle, Steven. “Yusuf and the Yanks,” No Quarter Given (XI:2) Mar. 2004, 4-8.
Baker, Kevin. “The Shores of Tripoli,” American Heritage (Feb.-Mar. 2002), 17-18.
Foxe, Ed. “The Captivity of John Fox,” No Quarter Given (XI:2) Mar. 2004, 6-7.
Harding, Nicholas B. “North African Piracy, the Hanoverian Carrying Trade, and the British
     State, 1728-1828,” The Historical Journal (43:1) 2000, 25-47.
Lebling, Robert. “The Saracen Pirates of Islamic Spain,” Renaissance Magazine (22), 32-35.
Longo, Mark S. “To the Shores of Tripoli,” Military Heritage (June 2005), 40-49.
Lord, Lewis. “Pirates! On the Shores of Tripoli, America Becomes a World Power,” U.S.
     News & World Report (Mar. 4, 2002), 48-50.
Pennell, C. R. “Dealing with Pirates: British, French and Moroccans, 1834-1856,” The Journal
     of Imperial & Commonwealth History (22:1), 54-83.
Pennell, C. R. “The Geography of Piracy: Northern Morocco in the Mid-nineteenth Century,”
     Journal of Historical Geography (20:3) 1994, 272-282.
Quadir, Iqbal F. “When Barbarossa Brothers Ruled the Mediterranean,” Defence Journal.
     February 2001.
Tucker, Spencer C. “Stephen Decatur: Hero of the American Sailing Navy,” Military
     Chronicles (Feb. 25-Mar. 4, 2002), 48-50.
Vallar, Cindy. “Captives of the Barbary States,” Pirates and Privateers (2004).
Vallar, Cindy. “Famous Barbary Corsairs,” Pirates and Privateers (2004).
Vallar, Cindy. “Barbary Corsairs,” Pirates and Privateers (2004).
Vorhees, David Williams. “Turkish Slavery,” South Street Seaport Magazine. Fall 1997.
White, William H. “Heroes of the Sailing Navy: Stephen Decatur Jr.,” Sea History (116)
     Autumn 2005, 12-15.
White, William H. “Heroes of the Sailing Navy: William Bainbridge,” Sea History (112)
     Autumn 2006, 10-14.
 
 

Books & Reports

Allison, Robert J. The Crescent Obscured: The United States & the Muslim World,
     1776-1815. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Baker, Thomas. Piracy and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-century North Africa. Fairleigh
     Dickinson University, 1989.
Bamford, Paul W. The Barbary Pirates: Victims and the Scourge of Christendom. Associates
     of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1972.

Captured by Pirates. Cambria Pines by the Sea: Fern Canyon Press, 1996.
Clissold, Stephen. The Barbary Slaves. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1977.
Cornwell, Edward Lewis. Illustrated History of Ships. New York: Crescent Books, 1979.
Cruelties of the Algerine Pirates. 1816.
Davies, Charles. The Blood-red Arab Flag. Exeter: University of Exeter, 1997.

Earle, Peter. Corsairs of Malta and Barbary. London: Sedgwick & Jackson, 1970.
Elizabeth Marsh: The Female Captain – a Narrative of Facts Which Happened in Barbary in
     the Year 1756, Written by Herself. Casablanca: Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre, 2003.
Garcés, María Antonia. Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt
     University, 2005.
Gravière, Admiral Jurien de la. Les Dernièrs Jours de la Marine à Rames. 1885.
Heere, Jacques. The Barbary Corsairs: Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580. Stackpole
     Books, 2003.
Hewitson, James. Skull & Saltire: Stories of Scottish Piracy – Ancient & Modern. Black &
     White, 2005.

Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars. Hill and Wang, 2005.
Lane-Poole, Stanley. The Barbary Corsairs. London: T. Fischer Unwin, 1890.
Lane-Poole, Stanley. Story of the Barbary Corsairs. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896.
Leiner, Frederick C. The End of Barbary Terror. Oxford University Press.
Lloyd, Christopher. English Corsairs on the Barbary Coast. London: Collins, 1981.
London, Joshua E. Victory at Tripoli. John Wiley, 2005.

Mainwaring, Henry. The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring. London: Navy Records
     Society, 1922.
Milton, Giles. White Gold. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2004.
Pellow, Thomas. History of the Long Captivity and Adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South
     Barbary. Garland, 1973.
Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England.
     Columbia University Press, 2001.
Pirates: Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China Sea. Turner
     Publishing, 1996.

Reis, Piri. The History of the Long Captivity and Adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South
     Barbary. New York: Garland, 1973.
Selinger, Gail. Complete Idiot’s Guide to Pirates. Penguin, 2006.
Wheelan, Joseph. Jefferson’s War: America’s First War on Terror, 1801-1805. Carroll &
     Graf, 2003.
White Slaves, African Masters. University of Chicago, 1999.
Wilson, Peter Lamborn. Pirate Utopias. Autonomedia, 1995.
Wolf, John Baptist. The Babary Coast: Algiers Under the Turks, 1500 to 1830. New York:
     Norton, 1979.
Wright, Louis B., and Julia H. Macleod. First Americans in North Africa: William Eaton’s
     Struggle for a Vigorous Policy Against the Barbary Pirates, 1799-1805. Greenwood
     Press, 1969.
 
 

Web Sites

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
     Eighteenth-century Documents
     Nineteenth-century Documents
Davis, Rees. “British Slaves on the Barbary Coast,” bbc.co.uk, July 1, 2003.
Finnemore, John. Barbary Corsairs
Mariner’s Museum’s The Barbary Wars
University of Melbourne, Australia’s Pirate document library
 

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