Identity Fraud: Interrogating the Impostures of "Robert de Bruce Keith Stewart" in Early Nineteenth-Century Penang and Calcutta

Duffield, Ian

doi:10.1093/jsh/shr067

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“…For self-advantage, in Australia the convict pirates Robert Stewart and John William Lancashire concealed wartime naval desertions. 117 Among convict pirates a minority had significant seafaring skills. William Wales, a fine mathematician and notable scientific and practical navigator, taught Stewart astral navigation at the Royal Institute of Mathematics, London.…”

Section: T H E G R O U N D S O F P I R At E S U C C E S S O R Fa I L mentioning

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Cutting Out and Taking Liberties: Australia's Convict Pirates, 1790–1829

Duffield

2013

Int Rev of Soc His

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The 104 identified piratical incidents in Australian waters between 1790 and 1829 indicate a neglected but substantial and historically significant resistance practice, not a scattering of unrelated spontaneous bolts by ships of fools. The pirates' ideologies, cultural baggage, techniques, and motivations are identified, interrogated, and interpreted. So are the connections between convict piracy and bushranging; how piracy affected colonial state power and private interests; and piracy's relationship to ''age of revolution'' ultra-radicalism elsewhere.

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confidence: 99%