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Pirates and Privateers
Professor David J. Starkey (Ed.)
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Description for Pirates and Privateers
Hardcover. Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or without the law. This book 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. Editor(s): Starkey, David J.; Van Heslinga, E.S. van Eyck; Moor, J. A. de. Series: Exeter Maritime Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, maps, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FPC; 1QSC; 3JF; 3JH; HBTM; JKV; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 232 x 8. Weight in Grams: 560.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Exeter Maritime Studies
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859894814
SKU
V9780859894814
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Professor David J. Starkey (Ed.)
E.S. van Eyck van Heslinga is Director of Collections, Netherlands Maritime Museum, Amsterdam. J.A. de Moor is Associate Professor in History, University of Leiden. David J Starkey graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in Economic History. He then gained an MA in the History of the Atlantic Economy at the University of Exeter, which led to doctoral ... Read more
Reviews for Pirates and Privateers
... the inclusion of essays concerning numerous countries allows the opportunity to compare the economic impact of piracy and privateering in a variety of areas.
International Journal of Maritime History
... Adds greatly to the corpus of solid research.
The International History Review
... As a quantity of new evidence, intriguingly presented, it is certainly a ... Read more
International Journal of Maritime History
... Adds greatly to the corpus of solid research.
The International History Review
... As a quantity of new evidence, intriguingly presented, it is certainly a ... Read more