The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856 by Guy Chet

The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856

Guy Chet

178 pages • first pub 2014 (view editions)

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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. In this book, Guy Chet reassesses that view by docu...

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