Janin, Hunt/Sheehan, Nicole Pirates and Privateers of the Atlantic and the Caribbean

This is the most recent and comprehensive study of international privateering in the 18th and 19th centuries. The work begins by focusing on the vessels themselvesprivately financed and privately owned craft specifically designed, outfitted, and manned to seek out, pursue, capture, sink, or burn enemy ships on behalf of a national or local government. Furthermore, the study sheds light on the officers and sailors aboard these vessels, the investors who financed this legal enterprise, and the ethnically diverse composition of some of the crews; it also discusses the role of European and other women who played an indirect yet significant part in the world of privateering. With its global perspectiveencompassing both land and seaon the maritime, political, and economic contexts of privateering, the book covers the following topics: privateers in the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain; Frances pivotal role in that same conflict; privateers in the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain; privateers in the Carolinas and the Caribbean; Latin American privateers in the service of insurgents; prominent figures in privateering; ethnic minorities and women in the privateering sphere; and naval artillery in the Age of Sail.