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Cambridge University Press Piratical States: British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean World, c.1780–1850 (Cambridge Oceanic Histories)

Name: Piratical States: British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean World, c.1780-1850 (Cambridge Oceanic Histories)
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This deeply researched, innovative study demystifies the way we think about the pirates of world history. Simon Layton encourages readers to look beyond eighteenth-century Atlantic paradigms of rogue individuals or revolutionary collectives, placing piracy as a concept at the heart of the British imperial project in Asia in the nineteenth century. Piratical States reveals an empire bent on wresting sovereignty over maritime space with its own forms of institutional and outsourced violence. A discourse developed in the official mind of colonial 'men-on-the-spot' castigated an array of indigenous seafaring communities and interrupted state-building across the corridors and chokepoints of global trade. In reports, diaries, correspondence, and memoranda, Britain's self-declared pirate-hunters retold history through a mythology of their own making, transforming piracy into an inherently political and racial category, legitimising the wholesale erasure of their enemies.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1108484131
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History
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Release Date: 11 June 2026
Listed Since: 30 August 2025

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