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Currey's account of Mediterranean pirates places piracy in the context of its times, when life was violent, politics was crude, and the greatness of men was determined by their ability to conquer. He is sympathetic to the "Moslems", and has a historiographic sensibility that is ahead of his time.
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By: E. Hamilton Currey
Piracy was a continuance of the violent politics and times of Old Europe in this British account.
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Sea-wolves of the Mediterranean; the grand period of the Moslem corsairs. New York: Dutton, 1910. The man-of-war; what she has done, and what she is doing. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1914. How we kept the seas. London: T. Nelson, 1917. Ian Hardy fighting the Moors. London: Seeley, Service, 1917.
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