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Piracy

Here are entered works on illegal acts of violence and detention that are committed at sea for personal gain. Works on acts of terrorism that are committed at sea for political motives are entered under Maritime terrorism.

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• Offenses against public safety

• Piracy -- Fiction
• Piracy -- Southeast Asia
• Privateering
• Trials (Piracy)

• Maritime piracy

• The Sixth Speed (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1908), by E. J. Rath, illust. by Charlotte Weber-Ditzler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Privateersman, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)

• Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by Stefan Eklöf Amirell (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), by Stefan Eklöf Amirell (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Privateering in King George's War, 1739-1748 (1928), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711 (London: Printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1712), by Woodes Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney-General of England, in the British House of Commons, May 13, 1864 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1864), by George Bemis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne: Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner (London: Chapman and Hall, 1899), by Woodes Rogers, ed. by Robert Charles Leslie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Log of a Privateersman, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v77; 1927), by Gardner Weld Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhode Island Privateers in King George's War, 1739-1748 (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1926), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of American Privateers (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by Edgar Stanton Maclay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution (Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society v77; 1927), by Gardner Weld Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jeff Davis Piracy Cases: Full Report of the Trial of William Smith for Piracy, As One of the Crew of the Confederate Privateer, the Jeff Davis, Before Judges Grier and Cadwalader, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Held at Philadelphia, in October, 1861 (Philadelphia: King and Baird, Printers, 1861), ed. by D. F. Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Cover-Up Exposed: The 1994 AMIA Bombing Case Hits the Wall (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 2004), by Sergio Kiernan (PDF at ajc.org)
• A Tangled Road to Justice: The AMIA Trial Nine Years Later (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2003), by Sergio Kiernan (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• A Glimmer of Hope: The AMIA Bombing, Five Years Later (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1999), by Sergio Kiernan (PDF at ajcarchives.org)

• The Bomb (London: J. Long, c1908), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bomb (first American edition; New York: M. Kennerley, 1909), by Frank Harris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Bomb (illustrated and definitive edition, with a new afterword; New York: The author, 1920), by Frank Harris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bomb (with a 1963 introduction by Dos Passos), by Frank Harris, contrib. by John Dos Passos (HTML at theanarchistlibrary.org)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Beirut Tragedy, "A New Crowd in Town" and Beirut Casualties, Care and Identification: Report, Together With Supplemental Views, of the Delegation to Beirut of the Committee on Armed Services and Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1983), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Department of Defense Appropriations, Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session: Situation in Lebanon and Grenada (Washington: GPO, 1983), by United States House Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittees on International Operations and on Europe and the Middle East of the House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session, June 28, 1983 (Washington: GPO, 1983), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984 (Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1987), by Benis M. Frank
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Report of the DOD Commission on Beirut International Airport Terrorist Act, October 23, 1983 (1983), by DOD Commission on Beirut International Airport Terrorist Act, October 23, 1983 (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984 (Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1987), by Benis M. Frank
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, by David Hoffman (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)

• The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, by David Hoffman (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)

• Detection of Explosives for Commercial Aviation Security (1993), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers, by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Investigation Report: Formal Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Downing of Iran Air Flight 655 on 3 July 1988 (redacted declassified release; Washington: US Dept. of Defense, originally prepared 1988), by William M. Fogarty (PDF at dod.mil)
• Iran Air Flight 655 Compensation: Hearings Before the Defense Policy Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, Hearings Held August 3 and 4, September 9, and October 6, 1988 (Washington: GPO, 1989), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sky Lighter (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c2003), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)

• International Terrorism, 1985: Hearings and Markup Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittees on Arms Control, International Security, and Science, and on International Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2822, March 5, 21, and June 25, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (official government edition, 2004), by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (HTML and PDF files at 9-11commission.gov)
• Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001: Report of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Together With Additional Views (declassified version, December 2002), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (PDF at govinfo.gov)
• The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11 (2003), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Tortured Justice: Using Coerced Evidence to Prosecute Terrorist Suspects (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Deborah Colson and Avi Cover (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Engineering and Organizational Issues Related to The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack (3 volumes), by Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (PDF files with commentary at buffalo.edu)
• Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11, ed. by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, contrib. by Anne Applebaum, Byron York, Daniel Pipes, Roger Kimball, James Bowman, John Podhoretz, and John Corry (PDF files at Hoover Institution)
• The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks, by United States Department of Justice (PDF at justice.gov)

• Simple Sabotage Field Manual (provisional Strategic Services field manual #3 (declassified); 1944), by United States Office of Strategic Services (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Le Sabotage (Bibliotheque du Mouvement Proletarian #13, in French; Paris: Librairie des Sciences Politiques et Sociales, M. Riviere et cie., ca. 1911), by Emile Pouget
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Sabotage (Chicago: C. H. Kerr Co., c1913), by Emile Pouget, trans. by Arturo M. Giovannitti, contrib. by Charles H. Kerr
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy and Function (1913), by Walker C. Smith (PDF at wa.gov)
• Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

More items available under broader and related terms at left.