The War Against the Pirates

British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-349-59514-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Britain and the World

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 explore how British and American interests – diplomatic and military – aligned to contain Spanish power to the critically influential islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, facilitating the forging of an enduring but unproclaimed Anglo-American alliance which endures to this day.

Due attention is given to United States Navy actions under Commodore David Porter, to this day a subject of controversy.  More significantly though, through the juxtaposition of British, American and Spanish sources, this book uncovers the roots of piracy – and suppression– that laid the foundation for the tortured decline of the Spanish empire in the Americas and the subsequent rise of British and American empires, instrumental in stamping out Caribbean piracy for good.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borras, Charles

Gough, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Gough is a Fellow of Kings College London, UK. A noted authority on British sea power, he is the author of twenty books on the maritime foundations of imperial history, and has won the Mountbatten Literary Award for Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace Before Armageddon (2014). Past president of the North American Society for Oceanic History, he was editor of The American Neptune: Maritime History & Arts.

Charles Borras is a lawyer who also holds a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.  He graduated from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law in 1993 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1995.  He later worked in the House of Commons of Canada as Special Assistant to the Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo from 1998 to 2001.  Charles published an article, “Video Surveillance in the Ontario Workplace,” with Dr Franklin Ramsoomair in 2005.