Pirates and privateers : new perspectives on the war on trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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Pirates and privateers : new perspectives on the war on trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
（Exeter maritime studies）
University of Exeter Press, 1997
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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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Preface
Introduction - DAVID J. STARKEY
1. Government Measures against Piracy and Privateering in the Atlantic Area, 1750-1850 - ROBERT C. RITCHIE
2. Hydrarchy and Libertalia: The Utopian Dimensions of Atlantic Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century - MARCUS REDIKER
3. Living and Working Conditions in Chinese Pirate Communities, 1750-1850 - DIAN MURRAY
4. Living and Working Conditions in Philippine Pirate Communities, 1750-1850 - GHISLAINE LOYRE
5. Piracy in the Eastern Seas, 1750-1850: Some Economic Implications - J. L. ANDERSON
6. Mediterranean Privateering between the Treaties of Utrecht and Paris, 1715-1856: First Reflections - GONCAL LOPEZ NADAL
7. A Restless Spirit: British Privateering Enterprise, 1739-1815 - DAVID J. STARKEY
8. Cruising in Colonial Waters: The Organization of North American Privateering in the War of 1812 - FAYE KERT
9. Experience, Skill and Luck: French Privateering Expeditions, 1792-1815 - PATRICK CROWHURST
10. The Organization of a Privateering Expedition by the Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie, 1747-1748 - CORRIE REINDERS FOLMER
11. The Risky Alternative: Dutch Privateering during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1783 - JAN VAN ZIJVERDEN
12. Profit and Neutrality: The Case of Ostend, 1781-1783 - JAN PARMENTIER
13. Privateers, Piracy and Prosperity: Danish Shipping in War and Peace, 1750-1807 - OLE FELDBACK
14. The Voyage of the Bornholm: Danish Convoy Service in the Caribbean, 1780-1781 - ERIK GOEBEL
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