Pirate Imperialism : trade, abolition, and global suppression of maritime raiding, 1825-1870 /
Manuel Barcia
Bok · Engelsk · 2026
| Omfang | pages cm
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| Opplysninger | "In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, imperial powers around the world came into direct confrontation with local resistance that took the form of maritime raiding. From the Atlantic basin to the Western Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf and the east coast of Africa, South East Asia, and China imperial powers claimed that the advance of progress was being held back by the barbarity and greed of pirates who repeatedly attacked imperial vessels. The suppression of piracy, justified under the banner of spreading civilization and free trade and abolishing slavery and the slave trade, provided both western and non-western powers with a backdoor for territorial expansion and for the enforcement of imperialist agendas. Historian Manuel Barcia tells the story of these conflicts, arguing that the suppression of maritime raiding was an intrinsically racist enterprise, particularly when conducted by western powers, who saw it as an obstacle to their imperial ambitions and practiced extreme violence against resisting Asian and African populations they deemed pirates. Under the pretext of "civilizing" non-western peoples, abolishing the slave trade, and enforcing free trade, imperialist powers frequently used anti-maritime raiding efforts as excuses to cement western supremacy in various parts of the world while simultaneously resorting to violent means that were indistinguishable from those used by those they accused of being pirates"--
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| ISBN | 9780300269451
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