The Politics of Piracy: Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America

by Douglas R. Burgess Jr.

The seventeenth-century war on piracy is remembered as a triumph for the English state and her Atlantic colonies. Yet it was piracy and illicit trade that drove a wedge between them, imperiling the American enterprise and bringing the colonies to the verge of rebellion. In The Politics of Piracy, competing criminalities become a lens to examine England's legal relationship with America. In contrast to the rough, unlettered stereotypes associated with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611685273
• ISBN13: 9781611685275
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Foreedge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"