Dissertation

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Desde diversos enfoques, se examinan las prácticas del poder en ámbitos públicos y domésticos, las teorías que lo legitiman o limitan, de las ceremonias que lo ensalzan y los conflictos causados por el ejercicio de la autoridad.

Tal es el grado de desconocimiento de nuestra historia naval que el simple título de este trabajo parecerá a muchos una contradicción, porque el sustantivo ‘corsario’ no puede ir acompañado del gentilicio ‘español’. A consolidar esta percepción, ha contribuido la imagen acuñada por la literatura y el cine. Al contrario, como esperamos demostrar en estas páginas, en España hubo numerosos corsarios y de gran éxito. Conviene aclarar que un corsario era algo muy diferente de un pirata. El corsario se trataba de un particular que, por las razones que fuesen, había obtenido una...