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Author Chet, Guy, 1968- author.

Title The ocean is a wilderness : Atlantic piracy and the limits of state authority, 1688-1856 / Guy Chet.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Atlantic frontier : continued piracy through the long eighteenth century -- Frustrated aspirations : the legal and ethical presumptions of the early modern state -- Holding the bag : the marine insurance industry's role in perpetuating and combating piracy -- Smuggling : armed commerce and the severe limits of state enforcement and persuasion.
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Subject Marine insurance -- United States -- History.
Marine insurance.
United States.
History.
Marine insurance -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain.
Smuggling -- Atlantic Ocean -- History.
Smuggling.
Atlantic Ocean.
Piracy -- Atlantic Ocean -- History.
Piracy.
Maritime terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
Maritime terrorism.
Maritime terrorism -- Great Britain -- Prevention.
Maritime terrorism -- Atlantic Ocean.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Chet, Guy, 1968- Ocean is a wilderness. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014] 9781625340849 (DLC) 2014007780 (OCoLC)867765674
ISBN 9781613763063 (electronic book)
1613763069 (electronic book)
1625340850
9781625340856
9781625340849 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1625340842