Unwanted Heroes? British Privateering, Commerce, and Diplomacy in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12427619 |
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| Authors | Basil C Gounaris (0000-0002-1425-5149, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-165 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mediterranean Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1074-164X • E-ISSN: 2161-4741 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.22.2.0135 |
| OpenAlex | W1992893106 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article argues that the legitimacy and the effectiveness of privateering in the mid-eighteenth-century Mediterranean were determined by high politics beyond the indispensable war status. After the presentation of four distinctive privateering stories involving individuals of different backgrounds, there follows an analysis of the Ottoman, French, and British factors that determined national and private interests in wartime Archipelago (the Aegean Islands). As the Ottoman Empire was the major commercial partner and a potentially desirable ally for both the French and the British, especially for the Levant Company, privateers were trapped between conflicting interests, beyond their own comprehension
Ancient history · Archaeology · Archipelago · Diplomacy · Economic history · Legitimacy · Mediterranean climate · Political science · Politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Ottoman Empire History and Society
| Highly cited | No |
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