The Politics of Piracy: Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America 1611685273, 9781611685275

The seventeenth-century war on piracy is remembered as a triumph for the English state and her Atlantic colonies. Yet it

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The Politics of Piracy: Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America
1611685273, 9781611685275

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