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No Limits to Their Sway : Cartagena's Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions /

"Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. With n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perez Morales, Edgardo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Slavery, Seamanship, Freedom
  • Heralds of Liberty and Disobedience
  • Cartagena de Indias and the Age of Revolutions
  • The American Connection
  • Detachment from the Land and Irreverence at Sea
  • Under the Walls of Havana
  • Haiti: The Beacon Republic
  • "Horrors of Carthagena"
  • Robbery, Mutiny, Fire
  • Epilogue: From Amelia Island to the Republic of Colombia
  • Primary Sources on Cartagena-Flagged Privateers.