Profs & Pints Baltimore: How Pirates Changed the World

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “How Pirates Changed the World,” with Joshua M. White, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean.

[Doors open at 5. The talk starts at 6:30. The room is open seating.]

Piracy has existed for as long as humans have taken to the sea. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, however, maritime violence flourished across the globe as never before, with the Mediterranean Sea being its epicenter.

Gain a deep understanding of the piracy of this period—and why it mattered so much—with Professor Joshua White, a scholar of Mediterranean history who teaches courses on Mediterranean pirates and on the ethics of piracy.