A chronology of early modern piracy -- Spain and the sixteenth-century corsairs -- Smugglers, pirates, and privateers : the Elizabethans -- From the Low Countries to the high seas : the Dutch sea-rovers -- The seventeenth-century Caribbean buccaneers -- Buccaneers in the South Sea -- Pirates, merchants, and conquistadors in the Indian Ocean and China Seas -- The last buccaneers and pirate suppression -- Appendix 1: Table of early modern pirates and contemporary monarchs -- Glossary of terms
