The lucrative, extralegal business of privateering as a window into the Atlantic World
David Head, is an assistant professor of history at Spring Hill College inMobile, Alabama.
All in all, Privateers of the Americas is a solid contribution to
the literature regarding Spanish American privateering. Head has
presented a fine distillation of the privateering enterprise. His
research is admirable, his writing style is eminently readable, and
his analysis of the workings of the business of Spanish American
'privateering' is unassailable.--Fred Leiner "Northern Mariner"
In Privateers of the Americas, David Head persuasively argues that
privateering also provides a useful lens for examining American
diplomatic history in the early nineteenth century. His book also
clearly demonstrates the complicated interrelationships - the
'geopolitics' - that bound together the United States, Spain,
Portugal, France, Great Britain, and the emerging revolutionary
republics of Latin America in a complicated Atlantic world.--Carl
E. Swanson "International Journal of Maritime History"
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