Название: Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World
Автор: Kevin P. McDonald
Издательство: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520282906
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 237
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of the East Indies.