Pirates Operated Outside Empires They Once Served : Reexamining Caribbean Piracy as Economic Resistance and Colonial Disorder, 1650-1730.DE

Alina Frost

ISBN 10: 3565210745 / ISBN 13: 9783565210749

Editore: Epubli, 2026

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Golden Age of Piracy wasn't simply lawless adventure-it emerged from the fractures of imperial expansion, where sailors, escaped slaves, and dispossessed colonists created autonomous communities beyond European control. This book traces how Caribbean piracy developed as both economic survival strategy and rejection of the brutal hierarchies governing colonial trade, naval service, and plantation labor.Through admiralty court records, ship logs, colonial correspondence, and rare pirate testimonies, the narrative reveals who became pirates and why: merchant sailors facing starvation wages and deadly conditions, privateers abandoned when wars ended, Africans who escaped enslavement, indigenous peoples resisting colonization. Pirate crews established surprisingly democratic governance-elected captains, shared plunder, disability compensation-that contrasted sharply with the absolute authority on naval and merchant vessels.The book examines piracy's relationship to legitimate commerce: how pirates disrupted Spanish silver flows, challenged English and French trade monopolies, and forced colonial powers to negotiate despite official rhetoric of extermination. It follows the establishment of pirate havens like Nassau, where multi-ethnic communities temporarily flourished outside plantation economies and racial hierarchies, until imperial navies systematically destroyed these alternatives.Crucially, the narrative avoids romanticization while taking pirates seriously as historical actors who exploited and perpetuated violence even as they resisted exploitation themselves. Their suppression reveals how European powers consolidated control over Atlantic trade through coordinated naval force, expanded legal frameworks, and elimination of economic alternatives to imperial systems.

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• Titolo: Pirates Operated Outside Empires They Once Served : Reexamining Caribbean Piracy as Economic Resistance and Colonial Disorder, 1650-1730.DE
• Editore: Epubli
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3565210745
• ISBN 13: 9783565210749
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 297 L x 210 A x 13 P (millimetri) 297 millimetri di larghezza per 210 millimetri di altezza per 13 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 559 grammi

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The Golden Age of Piracy wasn't simply lawless adventure—it emerged from the fractures of imperial expansion, where sailors, escaped slaves, and dispossessed colonists created autonomous communities beyond European control. This book traces how Caribbean piracy developed as both economic survival strategy and rejection of the brutal hierarchies governing colonial trade, naval service, and plantation labor. Through admiralty court records, ship logs, colonial correspondence, and rare pirate testimonies, the narrative reveals who became pirates and why: merchant sailors facing starvation wages and deadly conditions, privateers abandoned when wars ended, Africans who escaped enslavement, indigenous peoples resisting colonization. Pirate crews established surprisingly democratic governance—elected captains, shared plunder, disability compensation—that contrasted sharply with the absolute authority on naval and merchant vessels. The book examines piracy's relationship to legitimate commerce: how pirates disrupted Spanish silver flows, challenged English and French trade monopolies, and forced colonial powers to negotiate despite official rhetoric of extermination. It follows the establishment of pirate havens like Nassau, where multi-ethnic communities temporarily flourished outside plantation economies and racial hierarchies, until imperial navies systematically destroyed these alternatives. Crucially, the narrative avoids romanticization while taking pirates seriously as historical actors who exploited and perpetuated violence even as they resisted exploitation themselves. Their suppression reveals how European powers consolidated control over Atlantic trade through coordinated naval force, expanded legal frameworks, and elimination of economic alternatives to imperial systems.