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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 (Paperback)
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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 (Paperback)
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from
the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the
often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from
the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its
administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally
depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates
played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their
enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the
economic infrastructure of port towns. English piracy and
unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean,
and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in
the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as
well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies
formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that
undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies.
Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this
study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to
the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on
patterns of development that formed early America and the British
Empire.
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