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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.

Recent developments in action to combat sea piracy in Southeast Asian waters coincide with declining attack rates. This article analyses recent figures and tries to look behind the changes.

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly horizontally differentiated, demands are interdependent because the copying technology exhibits increasing returns to scale. We characterize the Bertrand-Nash equilibria in a duopoly. Comparing equilibrium prices to the prices set by a multiproduct monopolist, we show that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus.

With the rise of the Internet and the explosion of Web-based entertainment, digital piracy has become a startlingly common crime and a huge problem that robs companies, artists, and other content creators of their creative and financial due. The fundamentally unfair nature of the crime and the harsh consequences of this illegal behavior need to be brought home to teens in a very visceral, high-impact way. By framing the discussion as property theft pure and simple and putting a human face on the victims, who are the very people teens respect and idolize-musicians, actors, directors, authors, gamers, programmers--this text does exactly that. Steeped as it is in digital literacy, suitable as a source for research projects, and serving up an argument whose structure, development, and effectiveness can be analyzed by readers, this is an excellent example of an informational text that conforms to many of the reading standards of the Common Core Curriculum

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