No limits to their sway : Cartagena's privateers and the masterless Caribbean in the age of revolutions /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pérez Morales, Edgardo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1800-1945
Privateering > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century.
Privateering > Latin America > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History.
Pirates > Caribbean Area > History.
Pirates > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Pirates.
Privateering.
Slavery.
Cartagena (Colombia) > History > 19th century.
Colombia > History > War of Independence, 1810-1822.
Caribbean Area > History, Naval.
Caribbean Area > History > 1810-1945.
Latin America > History > Wars of Independence, 1806-1830.
Colombie > Histoire > 1810-1822 (Guerre de l'Indépendance)
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire navale.
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > 1810-1945.
Amérique latine > Histoire > 1806-1830 (Guerres d'indépendance)
Caribbean Area.
Colombia.
Colombia > Cartagena.
Latin America.
History.
Naval history.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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