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Paperback The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856 Book
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ISBN: 1625340850

ISBN13: 9781625340856

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

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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 book, Guy Chet reassesses that view by documenting the persistence of piracy, smuggling, and other forms of illegal trade throughout the eighteenth century despite ongoing governmental campaigns to stamp it out. The failure of the Royal Navy to police oceanic trade reflected the state's limited authority

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