The Politics of Piracy: Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America by Douglas R. Burgess Jr.

The Politics of Piracy: Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America

Douglas R. Burgess Jr.

308 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction crime history informative medium-paced
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The seventeenth-century war on piracy is remembered as a triumph for the English state and her Atlantic colonies. Yet it was piracy and illicit trade that drove a wedge between them, imperiling the American enterprise and bringing the colonies to ...

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