1. Enemies of all nations
2. Bandits of the wine dark sea: piracy in the classical world
3. Vikings: the scourge from the North
4. English sea dogs and the pillaging of empire
5. Dwarf pirates: pillaging the Korean and Chinese coasts
6. Dutch sea beggars and the business of piracy
7. Brethren of the coast: Caribbean buccaneers
8. Fishers of men: piracy and state formation in Southeast Asia
9. 'Our sea': corsairs of the Mediterranean
10. Beneath the Jolly Roger: an age of chaos, an age of gold
11. Maritime marginals: piracy in late Imperial China
12. Community of Thieves: piracy in the Western Indian Ocean.
13. Terror on the seas: piracy in modern Southeast Asia.
14. Oil-soaked pirates in the Gulf of Guinea.
15. Saviours of the sea: pirates of the Somalia coast.
16. Modern pirate hunting
