The War Against the Pirates British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Gough, Barry (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Borras, Charles (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Britain and the World
• Θέματα: Great Britain-History.; United States-History.; Military history.; World politics.; History of Britain and Ireland.; US History.; History of Military.; Political History.

Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Prologue; Piracy in the Historical Literature
• Chapter 2: Cockpit of Empires
• Chapter 3: The Law of  Piracy
• Chapter 4: Crossroads of the American Seas: Gulf, Cuba, Puerto Rico
• Chapter 5: Royal Navy at Work
• Chapter 6: US Navy Operations
• Chapter 7:               Commodore Porter and the Fajardo Affair
• Chapter 8: Common Cause:  Royal Navy  and US Navy Operations
• Chapter 9: Conclusion:  The Emergent Alliance
• Appendix 1: Chronology of Invasions of Cuba, 1812 -1850
• Appendix  2: Chronology of Invasions of Puerto Rico, 1800-1850
• Appendix 3: Sailing orders to Commodore Porter 1 February 1823.