Peter Lehr is a lecturer in terrorism studies at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Counter-Terrorism Technologies and editor of Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism. He lives in Fife, Scotland.
“This is a serious work for a general audience. Policymakers would
do well to read it, as would aspiring pirates in search of career
advice.”—Frank Lawton, Financial Times
“In this informative and often entertaining short study, Lehr
traces the global history of piracy, quoting judiciously from an
array of historians and sources to make his case.”—Ben Wilson,
Times (UK)
“Peter Lehr, a maritime terrorism and piracy expert, casts fresh
light on pirates and delves deep into what motivates them and how
they operate.”—Paul Ridgway, Africa Ports & Ships
“For Lehr, an expert on modern-day piracy, the phenomenon’s history
should be a source of instruction rather than entertainment, piracy
past offering lessons for piracy present.”—Alex Colville,
Spectator
Listed on Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles List for 2019
“A ground-breaking survey of piracy through the ages. Lehr provides
a detailed analysis of the causes of piracy, he reveals the
operations of pirates ignored in most previous histories, and he
brings a specialist knowledge to recent attacks off Somalia, in the
Malacca Straits and in the Gulf of Guinea.”—David Cordingly, author
of Under the Black Flag
“The most comprehensive history of piracy I have ever read. And a
thrilling read, too!”—Adrian Tinniswood, author ofPirates of
Barbary
“A fresh perspective on global piracy through the ages by one of
the world’s leading experts on maritime security and
anti-terrorism. Lehr shoves aside the old temptations of blanket
condemnation and cheeky romanticizing to ferret out the timeless
patterns at the core of this venerable profession. . . . Pirates is
at once a magisterial and instructive book. It is history for our
times.”—Kris E. Lane, author of Pillaging the Empire
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