Tyson Reeder

Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots

Free Trade in the Age of Revolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251388
• ISBN-10: 0812251385
• Artikelnr.: 53921443

Autorenporträt

Tyson Reeder is an editor with The Papers of James Madison at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

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