The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire

Illustrations Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction Part I. The Desperate Quest for Security 1. The Lord's Doing 2. A Realm Exhausted 3. The Queen, Her Merchants and Gentlemen 4. The Quest for Cash 5. The Merchants Adventurers, Antwerp, and Muscovy 6. The Politics of Piracy, Trade, and Religion 7. Raising the Stakes 8. Cunning Deceits 9. The Gloves Are Off 10. Lovell's Lamentable Voyage 11. The Troublesome Voyage of John Hawkins Part II. Harvesting the Sea 12. The Queen and Alba's Pay Ships 13. The Cost of Failure 14. Undeclared Holy War 15. Drake's War 16. The Dread of Future Foes 17. Drake at the Treasure House of the World 18. From a Treetop in Darien 19. Success at a Cost 20. Dr. Dee's Nursery and the Northwest Passage 21. Dark Days at Rathlin Island 22. Drake's Perfect Timing 23. The Northwest and the Company of Kathai 24. In the Shadow of Magellan 25. Into the Jaws of Death 26.. The Famous Voyage 27. The World Is Not Enough 28. Elizabeth Strikes Back in the Levant 29. Katherine Champernowne's Sons Take Up the American Dream 30. The Defeats of 1582–84 31. Water! 32. Roanoke Part III. The Spanish War 33. The Queen Lets Loose Her Dragon 34. The Camel's Back 35. Cadiz 36. The Plundering of the Spanish Armada 37. America Again ... and Again? 38. The Last Gasp of the Early Roaring '90s Part IV. Dawn of Empire 39. The Alchemy That Turned Plunder into Trade 40. Essex, Ireland, and Tragedy 41. Raleigh, Virginia, and Empire 42. The East and the East India Company 43. Epilogue Appendix I. The Petty Navy Royal Appendix II. The Flotilla from New Spain of August 1587 Endnotes Glossary Select Bibliographical Essay and Suggested Reading Index