Trade, Plunder and Settlement

Trade, Plunder and Settlement

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Traces the maritime expansion of England through descriptions of a multitude of sea voyages from 1480 through 1630. Analyzes exploration, trading enterprise ven

The Confederacy of Pirates in Early Seventeenth Century Southwest Ireland

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Between Empires

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This study examines the wholesale trade in sugar from Brazil to markets in Europe. The principal market was northwestern Europe, but for much of the time betwee

Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720

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Drawing on a wide body of evidence, the book argues that the support of women was vital to the persistence of piracy around the British Isles at least until the

Britain and Colonial Maritime War in the Early Eighteenth Century

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In early modern Britain, there was an argument that war at sea, especially war in Spanish America, was an ideal means of warfare, offering the prospect of rich