A history professor at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, David Head's prior books have been supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship at the New-York Historical Society, and a Lord Baltimore Fellowship at the Maryland Historical Society. Head's previous work in the academic community has been honored with several awards and prizes, including the John Gardner Maritime Research Award; the Marion Brewington Prize for Chesapeake Maritime History awarded by the Maryland Historical Society; and the Hardin Craig Award for Excellence at the Munson Institute of Mystic Seaport Museum. Please visit the author at www.DavidHeadHistory.com.
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Twelve authors shed new light on the true history and enduring mythology of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pirates in this anthology of scholarly essays. The twelve entries in The Golden Age of Piracy discuss why pirates thrived in the seas of the ... SEE MORE