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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"pirates"”.
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Pirates in the Age of Projects, 1688-1707
This dissertation retells the history of pirates in the anglophone world, 1688-1707. It argues that the appellation “pirate” became applied to some within global seafaring communities as part of a contest among people of middling means to define the purpose and organisation of overseas expansion. …
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The Battle against Virtual Pirates: Promoting or Destroying Creativity?
The aim of this thesis is to provide an understanding of how copyright law, with specific relation to internet piracy, affects musical creativity and the fulfilment of creative potential. This thesis focuses on the operation of copyright law with regards to musical works, and will focus on musical …
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The Pixelated Jolly Roger: an Ethnographic Analysis of Online Pirates
… on an online discussion board with this group of pirates in an attempt to understand their beliefs and the ways that they interact with copyright. Three major categories are discussed pertaining to this group: their motivations, accounts, and contradictions apparent within the group.</p>
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Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism
<p>This dissertation traces the role of unauthorized publication in the posthumous construction of British Romanticism as a literary movement. It argues that Romantic ideology emerged from conflicting claims about the nature of intellectual property and the circulation of political and artistic …
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Pirates on the poopdeck: a study of the international law of piracy
… the average citizen of the west believed that pirates were a rather romantic bunch of people who daringly stole from the rich and were motivated by the prospects of some good clean fun. Perhaps unfortunately for the world these quaint folk had never existed, even a century ago. This in turn led …
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Gypsies, nomads, pirates and Indians: counter culture, revolution and the movement of movements
This thesis is geared towards assessing the role(s) ('positive', 'negative', etc.) of certain cultural 'codes' in the constitution of oppositional social movements - including (but not limited to) codes associated with “counter culture”. In orienting itself as such, it takes as its starting point …
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Playing Pirates: The Construction of Shared Fantasy and Identity Performance in theRenaissance Festival Subculture
This study examines how the renaissance festival setting offers a context for non-normative identity performance within a carnivalesque setting in which the construction of shared fantasy is the basis of social processes. It also asks how what social forces, such as popular media’s romanticized …
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Barbary Pirates: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton, and the Evolution of U.S. Diplomacy in the Mediterranean
… menaced in the Mediterranean by North African pirates sponsored by the rulers of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. As the U.S. sought to find a solution to end piracy and the practice of paying tributes or ransom to free Americans held captive, Thomas Jefferson proposed several solutions as …
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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
… and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690-1705’, offers a reconceptualisation of European piracy in the Indian Ocean through an exploration of piracy’s relationship with sovereignty and subjecthood. Traditionally interpreted through Euro-Atlantic frameworks, …
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The political economy of Anglo-American naval relations: pirates, slavers and the equatorial Atlantic, 1819 to 1863
This thesis analyses the decisions that affected Anglo-American naval relations from the Gulf of Mexico to the West African coast between 1819 and 1863. It places British and American naval deployment within the context of political and economic goals. The study reveals that Britain and the United …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
<p>The interdependent phenomena of piracy, privateering, and slave trading have been endemic to the Mediterranean since antiquity. However, from the mid-sixteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth-century, these phenomena – known at the time as corso – grew exponentially, both in volume and …
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The payment and insurance of ransom: an analysis of legality, morality and possible solutions in the case of ship hijackings by pirates
… one of the most lawless spots in the world. The pirates of Somalia increasingly threaten one of the busiest commercial shipping routes, thus forcing shipowners to pay higher insurance premiums or to reroute around the Cape. Either way, the current situation tremendously increases the costs of …
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Enemies of Mankind: the Developing Threat of Modern Maritime Piracy and Terrorism
… vessels and the murder of their crews. While pirates have roamed the seven seas for countless centuries, modern pirates present a unique threat to the contemporary world. This thesis will examine the threat of modern piracy. Piracy as a threat and a concept has evolved throughout history, from …
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So Many Thieves and Lutherans at Sea: Spain's Reaction to the Emergence of French Huguenots in the New World
… in the Americas focuses on the motivations of pirates and neglects to consider the Spanish reaction to the foreign invaders. In examining the establishment of a French colony in Florida and the piratical acts of a French pirate fleet in 1570, the Spanish reaction to heresy in the New World …
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Writing at the Edge of the Empire: The Poetics of Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… world. Contrary to popular opinion, not all pirates were illiterate thugs. Many wrote about their experiences, and their narratives were immensely popular among early modern readers. I focus on the generic choices pirate-authors made as they crafted their narratives for popular consumption, …
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Contemporary Pirates: An Examination of the Perceptions and Attitudes Toward the Technology, Progression, and Battles that Surround Modern Day Music Piracy in Colleges and Universities.
The pilot study used in this thesis examined the attitudes and perceptions of a small group of students at the University of North Texas. The participants in this pilot study (n=22) were administered an online music file sharing survey, a Defining Issues Test (DIT), and participated in a small …
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The Castillo de San Fernando de Omoa : The History of a Fiasco
… Fernando de Omoa grew from the unrest caused by pirates along the coasts of Central America in the 17th and 18th centuries. The poor condition of the Caribbean defenses resulted partly because Spain did not know how to deal with the pirates. The latter did not have very much strength, and changed …
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Arrest of ships in Germany and South Africa - a comparison
… is just as much a part of seafaring as distress, pirates and congested ports". Even if this comparison is doubtful since in opposition to an arrest, "distress, pirates and congested ports" are no legal institutes that are regulated by procedural rules. But the sentence shows the popularity of the …
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