books.google.com - In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost ideal...http://books.google.com/books/about/Pirate_Novels.html?id=KHpUBiGNFWgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePirate Novels