Encontrar uma cópia na biblioteca
Encontrando bibliotecas que possuem este item...
Detalhes
| Pessoa Denominada: | Benjamin Franklin |
|---|---|
| Tipo de Documento: | Livro |
| Todos os Autores / Contribuintes: |
Robert H Patton |
| ISBN: | 9780375422843 0375422846 |
| Número OCLC: | 165957643 |
| Descrição: | xxii, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Conteúdos: | 1775 Machias, Maine -- 1776 Boston, Massachusetts -- 1776 Providence, Rhode Island -- 1776 Brooklyn, New York -- 1778 Barbados, West Indies -- 1779 Penobscot, Maine -- 1779 New London, Connecticut -- 1780 Newfoundland, Canada -- 1782 Portsmouth, England -- 1782 Brooklyn, New York -- 1783 Providence, Rhode Island. |
| Responsabilidade: | Robert H. Patton. |
Resumo:
A revelation of America's War of Independence, a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal profit as well as national freedom. Privateers were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy trade as they could successfully haul back to America's shores. Patton writes how privateering engaged all levels of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assembly halls; how it gave rise to an often cutthroat network of agents who sold captured goods and sparked wild speculation in purchased shares in privateer ventures, enabling sailors to make more money in a month than they might otherwise earn in a year; and how they turned their seafaring talents to the slave trade. Vast fortunes made through privateering survive to this day, among them those of the Peabodys, Cabots, and Lowells of Massachusetts, and the Derbys and Browns of Rhode Island.--From publisher description.
Críticas
Críticas contribuídas por usuários
Adicione uma crítica e compartilhe suas opiniões com outros leitores.
Seja o primeiro.
Adicione uma crítica e compartilhe suas opiniões com outros leitores.
Seja o primeiro.
Etiquetas
Adicionar etiquetas para "Patriot pirates : the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution".
Etiquetas de todos os usuários (6)
Ver as etiquetas mais populares como: lista de etiquetas
| nuvem de etiquetas
Ver as etiquetas mais populares como:
lista de etiquetas
| nuvem de etiquetas
- 18th century (por 1 pessoa)
- history (por 1 pessoa)
- maritime (por 1 pessoa)
- mrust (por 1 pessoa)
- privateer (por 1 pessoa)
- revolution (por 1 pessoa)
- 1 os ítens são com etiquetas com18th century
- 1 os ítens são com etiquetas comhistory
- 1 os ítens são com etiquetas commaritime
- 1 os ítens são com etiquetas commrust
- 1 os ítens são com etiquetas comprivateer
- 1 os ítens são com etiquetas comrevolution
Ítens Similares
Assuntos Relacionados:(10)
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations.
- Privateering -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- France.
- France -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- Seeräuberei
- Außenpolitik
- USA -- Unabhängigkeitskrieg
- Großbritannien
- Frankreich
Listas de usuários com este item (2)
- Portsmouth New Hampshire & the Isles of Shoals from SeacoastNH.com(253 ítens)
por seacoastnh atualizado 2012-11-06
- Things to Check Out(126 ítens)
por shawnanctil atualizado 2011-08-05
