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Pirates and Privateers

Pirates and Privateers

Hardcover

Series: Exeter Maritime Studies

General World HistoryBritish HistoryNaval History

ISBN10: 0859894819
ISBN13: 9780859894814
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: May 1 1997
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.43
Language: English
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.

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