Pirate studies

He argues that the first academic historians using properly historical techniques such as archival sources began to examine piracy around the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

But the growth and respectability of the academic study was significantly aided by the work of Professor John Bromley, the British maritime historian.

In this context, the claim is made for a nonmoral approach to piracy as a source of inspiration for entrepreneurship research in general[3] and business model generation in particular.

[4] Key sources, documented by Pennell (1998) include Barry Burg's (1998) Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition.

[2] As an academic subject, Pirate studies has been criticized as embodying or symptomatic of the deep methodological difficulties within the humanities.