![]() ![]() ![]() Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. ![]()
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