Pirates and Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780859894814 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 280 str.

Universit Professor David J. Starkey (Department of History;E.S. Van Eyck Heslinga;J. A. de Moor

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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.