In a Sea of Empires - Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean

A history of imperial competition, colonial cooperation, and revolutionary currents in the maritime borderlands of the early nineteenth-century Caribbean.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Free ports and black markets; 3. Imperial warfare, colonial violence; 4. Prize courts and privateers; 5. Slave laws and free communities; 6. Abolition and the illegal slave trade; Conclusion.

About the author

Jeppe Mulich is Teaching Associate in Global History at the University of Cambridge and St John's College.

Summary

By exploring transnational networks involved in smuggling, privateering, slave trade, marronage, and corruption, Jeppe Mulich illuminates the entangled nature of imperial politics and colonial law in the maritime borderlands of the Caribbean during the age of revolutions.

Product details

• Authors: Jeppe Mulich, Jeppe (London School of Economics and Poli Mulich, Jeppe (London School of Economics and Political Science) Mulich, MULICH JEPPE
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781108489720
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48972-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Oceanic Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, Caribbean islands, General & world history, General and world history, History of the Americas