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<b>A sociological investigation into maritime state power told through an exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy.</b><br> <br> Early in the seventeenth-century boom of seafaring, piracy allowed many enterprising and lawless men to make fortunes on the high seas, due in no small part to the lack of policing by the British crown. But as the British empire grew from being a collection of far-flung territories into a consolidated economic and political enterprise dependent on long-dist
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- Author
- Matthew Norton
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226823102
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, True Crime
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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