Description - Pirates and Privateers by Professor David J. Starkey
Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or outside the law. In the 18th and 19th centuries such assaults reached new heights as the development of trans-oceanic empires led to an increase in the wealth and extent of sea-borne trade, and with it the potential for prize-taking. This work focuses on the character of pirate communities in the Caribbean, the East Indies and China, and on the scale and significance of privateering operations bases on the principal European maritime states. It brings together the work of an internationally renowned group of scholars to shed fresh light on the frequently misunderstood subject of violence at sea in the age of sail.
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