Shows how Britain and its empire was not a strong centralised imperial state and that it was only through manifold activities taking place in different colonial centres with varied colonial arrangements that the surge in piracy in this period was contained and reduced.
Shows how Britain and its empire was not a strong centralised imperial state and that it was only through manifold activities taking place in different colonial centres with varied colonial arrangements that the surge in piracy in this period was contained and reduced.
DAVID WILSON is Lecturer in Early Modern Maritime and Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde.
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Introduction Chapter One: Peacetime Disputes and the Rise of Piracy Chapter Two: Caribbean Piracy and the Protection of Trade Chapter Three: Woodes Rogers and Private Enterprise in New Providence Chapter Four: Colonial Maritime Defence and Piracy in North America Chapter Five: The Slave Trading Lobby and Piracy in West Africa Chapter Six: Piracy and Company Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean Chapter Seven: The Structural Weaknesses of Piracy and Imperial Maritime Power in the Western Atlantic Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
Introduction Chapter One: Peacetime Disputes and the Rise of Piracy Chapter Two: Caribbean Piracy and the Protection of Trade Chapter Three: Woodes Rogers and Private Enterprise in New Providence Chapter Four: Colonial Maritime Defence and Piracy in North America Chapter Five: The Slave Trading Lobby and Piracy in West Africa Chapter Six: Piracy and Company Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean Chapter Seven: The Structural Weaknesses of Piracy and Imperial Maritime Power in the Western Atlantic Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
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