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The ocean is a wilderness : Atlantic piracy and the limits of state authority, 1688-1856 / Guy Chet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chet, Guy, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maritime terrorism--Atlantic Ocean.
- Maritime terrorism.
- Maritime terrorism--Great Britain--Prevention.
- Maritime terrorism--United States--Prevention.
- Marine insurance--Great Britain--History.
- Marine insurance.
- Marine insurance--United States--History.
- Piracy--Atlantic Ocean--History.
- Piracy.
- Smuggling--Atlantic Ocean--History.
- Smuggling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Historians have long maintained that the rise of the British empire brought an end to the great age of piracy, turning the once violent Atlantic frontier into a locus of orderly commerce by 1730.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-306-9
- OCLC:
- 896890179
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