Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
12-30-2017
Publication Title
The English Historical Review
Volume
132
Issue
559
Pages
1597-1599
Abstract
Mark Hanna’s important book makes two very valuable contributions to the history of the British Atlantic. First, it recovers piracy’s vital part in colonial economic growth during the seventeenth century. Secondly, it explains piracy’s ultimate demise in the early eighteenth century by tracing the regulatory revolution that turned an assemblage of wayward Atlantic colonies into a profitable commercial empire.
Recommended Citation
Donoghue, John. Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740 by Mark G. Hanna. The English Historical Review, 132, 559: 1597-1599, 2017. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, History: Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cex311
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Author Posting. © Oxford University Press 2017. This review is posted here by permission of Oxford University Press for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in The English Historical Review, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cex311