British Privateering Voyages of the Early Eighteenth Century
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- Author(s) Beattie, Tim C H
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2015
- Pages 236pp; illus
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer
- Place Published Woodbridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Describes in detail the well known privateering expeditions of William Dampier,1703-06, Woodes Rogers, 1708-11 and of John Clipperton and George Shelvocke, 1719-22, dealing in particular with motives; financing and returns; and impact, inter alia, on future British maritime and naval strategy and behaviour of investors. Based on doctoral thesis