Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World Volume 21

by Kevin P. McDonald

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520282906
• ISBN13: 9780520282902
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"