The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856

By Guy Chet

Book Overview

Historians have long maintained that the rise of the British empire brought an end to the great age of piracy, turning the once violent Atlantic frontier into a locus of orderly commerce by 1730. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625340842
• ISBN13: 9781625340849
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher