British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century
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- Author(s) Starkey, David J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1990
- Pages 344pp
- Publisher University of Exeter Press
- Place Published Exeter
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly study dealing with the then neglected area of privateering in 18th century. Draws on doctoral thesis. Touches also on military aspects. Structured in three parts: Part 1] 'Character': 'Origins and regulation'; 'Private men of war and 'letters of marque''; 'Risks and rewards'; Part 2] 'Scale': 'Their privateers will be lords and ours will be beggars'; 'To cruise on the Spaniards under His Majesty's Commission'; 'Good pickings for privateers of force'; 'Small ships, vessels of boats, being, or pretending to be, English privateers'; 'Additional forces'; Part 3] 'Significance': 'Constraints and determinants'; 'Private interests inseparable from ... the public interests of the British nation?'; 'The finest opportunity?'. Extensive appendices. Brief coverage of George Shelvocke and Woodes Rogers