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Pirates, merchants, settlers, and slaves : Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic world

Title
Pirates, merchants, settlers, and slaves : Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic world / Kevin P. McDonald.
Author
McDonald, Kevin P., 1972-
Publication
  • Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic world
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
xii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There 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 bperipheries of world empires and shows the illicit ways American colonists met the consumer demand for slaves and East India goods. The book reveals that pirates played a significant yet misunderstood role in this period and that seafaring slaves were both commodities and essential components in the Indo-Atlantic maritime networks."--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
California World History Library ; 21
Uniform Title
California world history library ; 21.
Subject
  • 1600 - 1799
  • Slave trade > United States > History > 17th century
  • Slave trade > United States > History > 18th century
  • Pirates > United States > History > 17th century
  • Pirates > United States > History > 18th century
  • HISTORY / United States / General
  • Pirates
  • Slave trade
  • North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • North America
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-195) and index.
Contents
The spectrum of piracy -- New york merchants and the Indo-Atlantic trade -- Utopian dreamers and colonial disasters -- Pirate-settlers of madagascar -- Seafaring slaves and freedom in the Indo-Atlantic world.
Call Number
Sc E 16-1997
ISBN
  • 9780520282902 (cloth)
  • 0520282906 (cloth)
  • 9780520958784 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0520958780 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014029707
OCLC
888401064
Author
McDonald, Kevin P., 1972- author.
Title
Pirates, merchants, settlers, and slaves : Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic world / Kevin P. McDonald.
Publisher
Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic world
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
California World History Library ; 21
California world history library ; 21.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-195) and index.
Chronological Term
1600 - 1799
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-1997
IF 15-2748
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