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Pirates and Privateers of the Atlantic and the Caribbean

Pirates and Privateers of the Atlantic and the Caribbean

Janin, Hunt
Sheehan, Nicole

Hardcover

Caribbean HistoryGeneral World HistoryNaval History

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 1036145190
ISBN13: 9781036145194
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.11 Depth: 9.31
Language: English
Reframes privateering as a global maritime phenomenon driven by finance, politics, and diverse crews across wars and seas.

Pirates and Privateers of the Atlantic and the Caribbean is the most recent and broadest study of international privateering in the 18th and 19th centuries.

It first examines ships themselves, which were privately financed and privately owned vessels designed, outfitted, and manned to locate, chase, capture, sink, or burn enemy ships under the auspices of a national or a local government.

In addition to this, it also considers the officers and seamen aboard these ships, the investors who financed this legal trade, and the multi-racial makeup of some of their crews, as well as discussing the European and other women who played an indirect but nevertheless important role in privateering.

Offering a worldwide sea-and-shore based coverage of the maritime, political, and economic reasons for privateering, it features privateers in the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain; the vital role of France in this same war; privateers in the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain; privateers in the Carolinas and in the Caribbean; Latin American insurgent privateers; noted privateering figures; racial minorities and women associated with privateering; and naval gunnery in the age of sail.

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