I must confess that I was never particularly interested in pirates as a child, and I do not find them to be particularly romantic or sympathetic figures now. However, I was attracted to the topic of piracy because it allowed me to explore the intersection of social, legal, and diplomatic h..
Joshua M. White
Joshua M. White is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean (Stanford, 2017).