Prize and Prejudice: Privateering and Naval Prize in Atlantic Canada in the War of 1812

by Faye M. Kert and Paul C. van Royen

Examines privateering and naval prizes in Atlantic Canada in the maritime War of 1812 - considered the final major international manifestation of the practice. It seeks to contextualise the role of privateering in the nineteenth century; determine the causes of, and reactions to, the War of 1812; determine the legal evolution of prize law in North America; discuss the privateers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the methods they utilised to manipulate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0968128815
• ISBN13: 9780968128817
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 260 Pages