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
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)