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Author Wilson, David (Maritime historian), author.

Title Suppressing piracy in the early eighteenth century : pirates, merchants and British imperial authority in the Atlantic and Indian oceans / David Wilson
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 23, 2021)
Subject Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- 18th century
SUBJECT Great Britain. Royal Navy fast
Subject Piracy -- Atlantic Ocean -- History -- 18th century
Piracy -- Indian Ocean -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY / Military / Naval.
British colonies
Colonies -- Administration
Piracy
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056846
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056633
Subject Indian Ocean
Great Britain
Atlantic Ocean
Genre/Form Naval history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781800101029
1800101023
9781800100879
1800100876