In the name of the battle against piracy : : ideas and practices in state monopoly of maritime violence in Europe and Asia in the period of transition / / edited by Ota Atsushi.

• Superior document: European expansion and indigenous response ; 29
• TeilnehmendeR: Atsushi, Ota.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 pages).

In the Name of the Battle against Piracy discusses antipiracy campaigns in Europe and Asia in the 16th-19th centuries. Nine contributors argue how important antipiracy campaigns were for the establishment of a (colonial) state, because piracy was a threat not only to maritime commerce, but also to i...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Atsushi Ota
• 1 Privateers in the Early-Modern Mediterranean: Violence, Diplomacy and Commerce in the Maghrib, c. 1600-1830 / Akihito Kudo and Atsushi Ota
• 2 Plunder and Free Trade: British Privateering and Its Abolition in 1856 in Global Perspective / Shinsuke Satsuma
• 3 The Making of the ‘Joasmee’ Pirates: A Relativist Reconsideration of the Qawāsimi Piracy in the Persian Gulf / Hideaki Suzuki
• 4 Petitions and Predation: The Politics of Representation in Northwest India at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century / Lakshmi Subramanian
• 5 Trade, Piracy, and Sovereignty: Changing Perceptions of Piracy and Dutch Colonial State-Building in Malay Waters, c. 1780-1830 / Atsushi Ota
• 6 In the Name of Sovereignty: Spain’s Tackling of ‘Moro’ Piracy in the Sulu Zone, 1768-1898 / James Francis Warren
• 7 Piracy Prohibition Edicts and the Establishment of Maritime Control System in Japan, c. 1585-1640 / Tatsuo Fujita
• 8 The Suppression of Pirates in the China Seas by the Naval Forces of China, Macao, and Britain (1780-1860) / Yasufumi Toyooka and Ei Murakami
• Conclusion / Atsushi Ota
• Bibliography / Atsushi Ota
• Index / Atsushi Ota.