Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Piracy in World History -- Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hägerdal -- 2 "Publique Enemies to Mankind" -- International Pirates as a Product of International Politics -- Michael Kempe -- 3 All at Sea -- Locke's Tyrants and the Pyrates of Political Thought -- Bruce Buchan -- 4 The Colonial Origins of Theorizing Piracy's Relation to Failed States -- Jennifer L. Gaynor -- 5 The Bugis-Makassar Seafarers -- Pirates or Entrepreneurs? -- Hans Hägerdal -- 6 Piracy in India's Western Littoral -- Reality and Representation -- Lakshmi Subramanian -- 7 Holy Warriors, Rebels, and Thieves -- Defining Maritime Violence in the Ottoman Mediterranean -- Joshua M. White -- 8 Piracy, Empire, and Sovereignty in Late Imperial China -- Robert J. Antony -- 9 Persistent Piracy in Philippine Waters -- Metropolitan Discourses about Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Moro Coastal Threats, 1570-1800 -- Birgit Tremml-Werner -- 10 Sweden, Barbary Corsairs, and the Hostis Humani Generis -- Justifying Piracy in European Political Thought -- Joachim Östlund and Bruce Buchan -- 11 "Pirates of the Sea and the Land" -- Concurrent Vietnamese and French Concepts of Piracy during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Stefan Eklöf Amirell -- 12 Pirate Passages in Global History -- Afterword -- Lauren Benton -- Index.