The History of Somali Piracy
A place to learn how Somali piracy fits within the long history of piracy
Historical piracy resources
Al-Qasimi, Sultan Muhammad. The Myth of Arab Piracy in the Gulf. Kent, UK: Croom Helm Ltd, 1986.
Anderson, Olive. 'British Governments and Rebellion at Sea.' The Historical Journal III, no. I (1960): 56-84.
Baer, Joel. 'An Account of the Tryals of Captain J Golden,' in British Piracy in the Golden Age: History and Interpretation, 1660-1730, edited by Joel H Baer: London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007.
Barbour, Violet. 'Privateers and Pirates of the West Indies.' The American Historical Review 16, no. 3 (1911): 529-66.
Craze, Sarah. 'Prosecuting Privateers for Piracy: How Piracy Law Transitioned from Treason to a Crime against Property.' The International Journal of Maritime History 28, no. 4 (2016): 654-70.
Dampier, William. Journal of William Dampier in the South Seas Relating His Adventures as a Pirate in the South Seas, Following His Departure from Bartholomew Sharp and Journey over Land with the Help of Central American Indians. 1681-91. Available through: Adam Matthew, Marlborough, Empire Online. (accessed: 9 August 2018)
Davies, Charles E. The Blood-Red Arab Flag: An Investigation into Qasimi Piracy 1797 - 1820. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997.
Dickinson, Edwin D. 'Is the Crime of Piracy Obsolete?'. Harvard Law Review 38, no. 3 (1925): 334-60.
Earle, Peter. The Pirate Wars. London: Methuen Publishing, 2003.
Exquemelin, A O. Bucaniers of America, or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West-Indies by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French: Wherein Are Contained More Especially the Unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, Our English Jamaican Hero Who Sack'd Puerto Velo, Burnt Panama, &C. Henry E Huntington Library, London: William Crooke, 1684.
Galvin, Peter R. Patterns of Pillage: A Geography of Caribbean-Based Piracy in Spanish America, 1536-1718. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1999.
Gosse, Philip. The History of Piracy. Second ed. London: Cassell & Co, Ltd, 1954.
Heller-Roazen, Daniel. The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations. New York: Zone Books, 2009.
Johnson, Captain Charles. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. 3rd edition. edited by David Cordingly. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1998.
Lambert, Frank. The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World. New York, USA: Hill & Wang, 2005.
Lane, Kris. Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas 1500-1750. Second ed. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2016.
Leeson, Peter T. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Lilius, Aleko E. I Sailed with Chinese Pirates. New York: D Appleton and Company, 1931.
Lincoln, Margarette. British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
Liss, Carolin. Oceans of Crime: Maritime Piracy and Transnational Security in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2011.
Little, Benerson. Pirate Hunting: The Fight against Pirates, Privateers and Sea Raiders from Antiquity to the Present. Washington DC: Potomac Books, Inc, 2010.
Lydon, James G. Pirates, Privateers, and Profits. New Jersey: The Gregg Press, Inc, 1970.
McCarthy, Matthew. Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America 1810-1830. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2013.
Murray, Dian H. Pirates of the South China Coast. California: Stanford University Press, 1987.
Ong-Webb, Graham Gerard, ed. Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca Straits, IIAS/ISEAS Series on Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2006.
Parker, Richard B. Uncle Sam in Barbary. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
Petrie, Donald A. The Prize Game: Lawful Looting on the High Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
Rediker, Marcus. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World 1700-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Rediker, Marcus. Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age. Massachusetts: Boston Press, 2004.
Ritchie, Robert C. 'Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates,' Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Rodger, N A M. 'The Law and Language of Private Naval Warfare.' Mariner's Mirror 100, no. 1 (2014): 5-16.
Rubin, Alfred P. The Law of Piracy. Second ed. New York: Transnational Publishers, Inc, 1998.
Smith, Aaron. The Atrocities of Pirates. Third ed. London: Prion, 1997.
Stark, Francis R. 'The Abolition of Privateering and the Declaration of Paris,' in Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, edited by Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University. New York: Columbia University, 1897.
Starkey, David J. 'Voluntaries and Sea Robbers: A Review of the Academic Literature on Privateering, Corsairing, Buccaneering and Piracy.' the Mariner's Mirror 97, no. 1 (2011): 127-47.
Tarling, Nicholas. Piracy and Politics in the Malay World: A Study of British Imperialism in 19th Century South-East Asia. Melbourne: FW Cheshire, 1963.
Tinniswood, Adrian. Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean, New York: Riverhead Books, 2010.
Trocki, Carl A. Prince of Pirates: The Temenggongs and the Development of Johor and Singapore 1784-1885. Singapore: NUS Press, 1979.
Warren, James Francis. The Sulu Zone 1768-1898. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1981.
Winston, Alexander. No Purchase, No Pay: Sir Henry Morgan, Captain William Kidd, Captain Woodes Rogers in the Great Age of Privateers and Pirates, 1665-1715. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969.
Wolf, John B. The Barbary Coast: Algiers under the Turks, 1500-1830. New York: Norton, 1979.
Young, Adam J. Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia: History, Causes and Remedies. Maritime Issues and Piracy in Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2007.
Zacks, Richard. The Pirate Coast. New York: Hyperion, 2005.
Zacks, Richard. The Pirate Hunter. New York: Hyperion, 2002.
Zahedieh, Nuala. ''A Frugal Prudential and Hopeful Trade': Privateering in Jamaica, 1644-89.,' in Naval History, 1500-1680, edited by Jan Glete. The International Library of Essays on Military History. Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005.