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From Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island' to Errol Flynn in 'Captain Blood vessels' to today's 'Pirates of the Caribbean', the romantic image of pirates in modern European popular culture is definitely around. But of course pirates come in many guises, rather than most of them as lovely as Johnny Depp. Pirates are outlaws who move quickly, a kind of lawlessness based on the application of immense short-term ability by mobile forces which fade away, comparable to guerrilla warfare. In 'Pirates and Privateers' Tom Bowling offers a lively history of piracy, from historical times through the 'privateers' such as Morgan, with their Words of Marque (an early on example of State-sponsored terrorism), to the still real and flourishing threat of modern day pirates that patrol the less well-regulated transport lanes of the world today.
