Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots - Free Trade in the Age of Revolution

This work delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult, revealing how merchants, smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates influenced contentious paths of independence in the United States and Brazil.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. Contraband, Plunder, and Revolution

PART I. NEGOTIATING EMPIRE

Chapter 1. Empire and Commerce

Chapter 2. The Plague of States

PART II. REGULATION AND REVOLUTION

Chapter 3. A Fractured Empire

Chapter 4. Duties and Discouragements

PART III. A LIBERTY OF TRADE

Chapter 5. Republicans and Smugglers

Chapter 6. Opened Ports, Restricted Trade

PART IV. "CONNEXIONS OF COMMERCE AND LIBERATION"

Chapter 7. Patriots of Pernambuco

Chapter 8. Republican Pirates

Chapter 9. Republics, Monarchies, and Commerce

Epilogue. Two Americas

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tyson Reeder

Zusammenfassung

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult, revealing how merchants, smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates influenced contentious paths of independence in the United States and Brazil.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tyson Reeder
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780812251388
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5138-8
• Seiten: 368
• Serien: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Internationale Wirtschaft