Douglas Burgess

DOUGLAS R. BURGESS JR. is an assistant professor of Atlantic world history at Yeshiva University and legal history at the Cardozo School of Law in New York. He has authored numerous books, including The Pirate’s Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History’s Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America and World for Ransom: Piracy Is Terrorism/Terrorism Is Piracy.