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Author Chet, Guy, 1968- author.

Title The ocean is a wilderness : Atlantic piracy and the limits of state authority, 1688-1856 / Guy Chet
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]

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Contents Atlantic frontier : continued piracy through the long eighteenth century -- Frustrated aspirations : the legal and ethical presumptions of the early modern state -- Holding the bag : the marine insurance industry's role in perpetuating and combating piracy -- Smuggling : armed commerce and the severe limits of state enforcement and persuasion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Marine insurance -- United States -- History
Marine insurance -- Great Britain -- History
Smuggling -- Atlantic Ocean -- History
Piracy -- Atlantic Ocean -- History
Maritime terrorism -- United States -- Prevention
Maritime terrorism -- Great Britain -- Prevention
Maritime terrorism -- Atlantic Ocean
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Marine insurance
Maritime terrorism
Piracy
Smuggling
Atlantic Ocean
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613763063
1613763069