Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves
Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of the East Indies. Rather than conducting their commerce through chartered companies based in London or Lisbon, colonial merchants in New York entered into an alliance with Euro-American pirates based in Madagascar. Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves explores the resulting global trade network located on the peri…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95878-4
- EAN: 9780520958784
- Produktnummer: 21596404
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 237 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'237 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 21
Über den Autor
Kevin P. McDonald is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
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