Pirates And Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [Hardcover]

Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or without the law. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such assaults reached new heights as the development of trans-oceanic empires increased massively the wealth and extent of sea-borne trade, and with it the potential for prize-taking.

 

Pirates and Privateers focuses on the character of pirate communities in the Caribbean, the East Indies and China, and on the scale and significance of privateering operations based in the principal European maritime states. It brings together the latest work of an internationally renowned group of scholars to shed fresh light on the fascinating, frequently misunderstood subject of violence at sea in the age of sail.

Preface

Introduction

Government Measures against Piracy and Privateering in the Atlantic Area, 1750-1850Robert C. Ritchie

Hydrarchy and Libertalia: The Utopian Dimensions of Atlantic Piracy in the Early Eighteenth CenturyMarcus Rediker

Living and Working Conditions in Chinese Pirate Communities 1750-1850Dian Murray

Living and Working Conditions in Philippine Pirate Communities 1750-1850Ghislaine Loyré

Piracy in the Eastern Seas, 1750-1850: Some Economic ImplicationsJ L Anderson

Mediterranean Privateering between the Treaties of Utrecht and Paris, 1715-1856: First ReflexionsGonçal Lopèz Nadal

A Restless Spirit: British Privateering Enterprise, 1739-1815David J Starkey

Cruising in Colonial Waters: The Organisation of North American Privateering in the War of 1812Faye Kert

Experience, Skill and Luck: French Privateering Expeditions, 1792-1815Patrick Crowhurst

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