Keyword

privateering

Description: Privateering is the state-authorized practice of using privately owned ships to attack or capture the vessels of an enemy during wartime.

Primary topic: Maritime Security and History (32%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q201559

OpenAlex ID: keywords/privateering

Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813

1978 · Owen Connelly, Simon Schama · The American Historical Review · 276

Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail

1998 · Sari Hornstein, W. Jeffrey Bolster · The William and Mary Quarterly · 189

The Business of War

2012 · David Parrott · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 181

Providence Island, 1630–1641

1993 · Karen Ordahl Kupperman · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 118

Arming the State

1999 · I.B.Tauris eBooks · 99

Global lives: Britain and the world, 1550-1800

2009 · Choice Reviews Online · 98

The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century

2002 · Erik Gilbert, R. J. Barendse · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 96

History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque with an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812

2004 · Gomer Williams · McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks · 88

Maritime Masters and Seafaring Slaves in Bermuda, 1680-1783

2002 · Michael J. Jarvis · The William and Mary Quarterly · 85

Securing the Protestant interest: the origins and purpose of the penal laws of 1695

1996 · Charles Ivar McGrath · Irish Historical Studies · 84

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British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century.

1991 · Alan G. Jamieson, David J. Starkey · The Economic History Review · 82

Enterprise and Empire : Merchant and Gentry Investment in the Expansion of England, 1575-1630

1967 · Theodore Κ. Rabb · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 82

Elizabethan Privateering: English Privateering During the Spanish War, 1585-1603

1965 · Philip L. Barbour, Kenneth R. Andrews · The William and Mary Quarterly · 80

Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

2015 · Mark G. Hanna · University of North Carolina Press eBooks · 79

The poetics of piracy: emulating Spain in English literature

2013 · Choice Reviews Online · 78

Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony

1996 · Alison F. Games, Karen Ordahl Kupperman · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 77

Competing Visions of Empire

2015 · Abigail L Swingen · Yale University Press eBooks · 73

The business of war: military enterprise and military revolution in early modern Europe

2013 · Choice Reviews Online · 68

Foundation for empire: English private trade in India, 1659-1760

1980 · Ian Watson · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 68

Mercenaries, pirates, bandits and empires : private violence in historical context

2010 · Alejandro Colás, Bryan Mabee · 64

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents

1924 · Charles M. Andrews, John Franklin Jameson · The American Historical Review · 64

Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering

2011 · Henning Hillmann, Christina Gathmann · The Journal of Economic History · 63

The Piracy Analogy: Modern Universal Jurisdiction's Hollow Foundation

2003 · Eugene Kontorovich · SSRN Electronic Journal · 61

Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands

2005 · Virginia West Lunsford · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 60

Faithless Empires: Pirates, Renegadoes, and the English Nation

2000 · Barbara Fuchs · ELH · 58

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Citation count: 7,331