| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Early American studies |
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Early American studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: contraband, plunder, and revolution -- Part I. Negotiating empire. Empire and commerce -- The plague of states -- Part II. Regulation and revolution. A fractured empire -- Duties and discouragements -- Part III. A liberty of trade. Republicans and smugglers -- Opened ports, restricted trade -- Part IV. "Connexions of commerce and liberation". Patriots of Pernambuco -- Republican pirates -- Republics, monarchies, and commerce -- Epilogue: two Americas |
| Summary |
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult, revealing how merchants, smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates influenced contentious paths of independence in the United States and Brazil |
| Subject |
Free trade -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Free trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Commerce
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Free trade
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Commerce -- Brazil -- History
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| Subject |
Brazil
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812296204 |
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0812296206 |
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