Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans 1783275952, 9781783275953

The Limits of Eurocentricity: Imperial British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Early Twentieth Century 9781463225964

In The Limits of Eurocentricity, Keith Wilson argues that the British Empire did not reorient itself towards Europe at t

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Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World 9780520958784

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the I

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Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands 9780824862947

This insightful analysis of British imperialism in the south Pacific explores the impulses behind British calls for the

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Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century 9781501731426

Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this d

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Spectacular Suffering : Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic 9780813938431, 9780813938424

Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which bl

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The British Navy in Eastern Waters: The Indian and Pacific Oceans 9781783276776, 9781800104587, 1783276770

Provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earlie

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The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire 9780226823102

An exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy that balances a sociological investigation into maritime state p

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Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown 1107062365, 9781107062368

This book examines the alliance between the Spanish Crown and Genoese merchant bankers in southern Italy throughout the

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Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World 9780807133590

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Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century 9780226706948

The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century—the so-called long eighteenth century of English hi

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