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The ocean is a wilderness : Atlantic piracy and the limits of state authority, 1688-1856
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- Creator
- Guy Chet
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 157 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781613763063, 9781625340856, 1613763069, 9781625340849, 1625340842, 1625340850
- OCLC
- ocn896890179, ocn867765674
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Maritime terrorism -- Atlantic Ocean.
- Maritime terrorism -- Great Britain -- Prevention.
- Maritime terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
- Piracy -- Atlantic Ocean -- History.
- Smuggling -- Atlantic Ocean -- History.
- Marine insurance -- Great Britain -- History.
- Marine insurance -- United States -- History.