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Pirates and Privateers
David John Starkey
其他書名
New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
出版University of Exeter Press, 1997
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Military / NavalHistory / WorldHistory / Maritime History & Piracy
ISBN08598948199780859894814
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FGOPAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.