Privateering

Faye Kert has already published books on privateering and the communities of Atlantic Canada in the War of 1812; in this study she extends her coverage to consider American as well as Canadian privateering in the same conflict. With trends in history publishing determined so much nowadays by anniversaries, it comes as no surprise that the Anglo-American War of 1812–15 has attracted a great deal of scholarly interest in the last few years. A multitude of studies have appeared, aiming to view the struggle as a second War of Independence for the Americans; as a struggle to avoid annexation, from the Canadian point of view; and even in relation to the much bigger (and, for the British, more important) Napoleonic Wars. But, as the author of this book points out, the history of privateering in the War of 1812 has received comparatively little treatment. Kert sets out to remedy this omission, meticulously compiling statistics on the number of privateers that operated from ports in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the United States, the number of prizes that they took, and the proceeds of the sale of prize goods

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