Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830

摘要

Matthew McCarthy's engaging study, Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830, challenges the notion that piracy gave way to settled diplomacy after the early eighteenth century in a world increasingly governed by international maritime law. Instead, since McCarthy posits that piracy and privateering continued to thrive in specific times and places well into the nineteenth century, he focuses his attention on Spanish predation of British trading during the Latin American Wars for Independence.