海盗黄金时代
海盜黃金時代是1650年代至1720年代西方海盜最猖獗的一個時期,它還可細分為三個時期:
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1894年,英格蘭記者喬治·鮑威爾(George Powell)最早提出了“海盜黃金時代”這一概念,當時指的是17世紀後半期[1]。哲學家約翰·菲斯克在1897年提出了更加系統的說法,即指1650至1720年[2]。
20世紀的歷史學家基本沿襲菲斯克的定義[3],但也提出了自己的看法。最廣的定義涵蓋了伊麗莎白一世統治時期和18世紀後半葉[4],這與菲斯克的定義有相當大的出入,後者認為伊麗莎白時代的人物如弗朗西斯·德雷克絕不能算入海盜黃金時代之內[5]。
參考文獻
- ^ George Powell, "A Pirate's Paradise," in The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. CCLXXVI, N.S. 52, Jan-June 1894, p. 23.
- ^ John Fiske, 1897, Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, p. 338.
- ^ R.D.W. Connor, 1909, Cornelius Harnett: An Essay in North Carolina History, P. 10; Francis Hodges Cooper, 1916, "Some Colonial History of Beaufort County, North Carolina," in James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science, v. 14, no. 2, p. 32.
- ^ Patrick Pringle, 1951, Jolly Roger: The Story of the Great Age of Piracy, p. 9 of the 2001 edition.
- ^ Fiske, p. 341-42.
- ^ David Cordingly, 1995, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates, pp. xvi–xvii.
- ^ Marcus Rediker, 2004, Villains of All Nations, p. 8.
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