Gilbert Buti, Philippe Hrode ˇj, Histoire des pirates et des corsaires. De l’Antiquité à nos jours, CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2016, pp. 601. This book, edited by Gilbert Buti and Philippe Hrode ˇj, represents an important original contribution to historiography, in that it analyses piracy and corsairs from ancient times to the present – the 21 st century, with articles dedicated to the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, Africa and Asia. A very important feature is the volume’s inter-disci- plinary point of view: articles of history, archeology, and sociology; even essays on films. The volume is divided into nine sections: La piraterie dans la Méditerranée antique; Pirates, piraterie et corsopiraterie en Europe au Moyen Âge; Course et piraterie entre Europe et Caraïbes (XVI e -XVII e s.); Le corso en Méditerranée (XVI e -XIX e s.); Course et piraterie dans l’espace atlantique (XVIII e -XIX e s.); Course et piraterie dans le monde asiatique (XVI e -XIX e s.); Renouveau de la piraterie dans le monde (XX e -XXI e s.); Le pirate, le corsaire et l’archéologue; Conclusion: du mythe au virtuel. The first section contains an article by Pascal Arnaud (L’Antiquité classique et la piraterie). Arnaud analyses various phenomena of piracy from the third millennium to the first century B.C. His investigation is based on the classical authors, Petronius, Demosthenes, Polybius and Tacitus. The second section is composed of four articles. The first is Alban Gautier’s essay La piraterie dans les mers du Nord au haut Moyen Âge. Gautier inquires into the Vikings and their pirate activity. The second, by Pierre Prétou (L’essor de la piraterie en Europe du XIII e au XV e siècle), is a study comparing piracy in the Mediterranean and the North Sea. The third is by Éric Limousin (Pirates et piraterie en Méditerranée Book Reviews 181