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

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36147-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigen

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 its sovereignty.

'Battle against piracy' offered a good reason for a state to claim its authority as the sole protector of people, and to establish peace, order, and sovereignty. In fact, as the contributors explain, the story was not that simple, because states sometimes attempted to make economic and political use of piracy, while private interests were strongly involved in antipiracy politics. State formation processes were not clearly separated from non-state elements.

Contributors are: Kudo Akihito, Satsuma Shinsuke, Suzuki Hideaki, Lakshmi Sabramanian, Ota Atsushi, James Francis Warren, Fujita Tatsuo, Murakami Ei, and Toyooka Yasufumi.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ota, Atsushi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

General Series Editor’s Preface
George Bryan Souza
Acknowledgments
Ota Atsushi
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations

Introduction
Ota Atsushi

Part 1: From Co-existence to Prohibition: Maritime Violence in Europe
1 Privateers in the Early-Modern Mediterranean: Violence, Diplomacy and Commerce in the Maghrib, c. 1600-1830
Kudo Akihito and Ota Atsushi
2 Plunder and Free Trade: British Privateering and Its Abolition in 1856 in Global Perspective
Satsuma Shinsuke

Part 2: Contingent Developments in Antipiracy Politics in the Asian Seas
3 The Making of the ‘Joasmee’ Pirates: A Relativist Reconsideration of the Qawasimi 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, ca. 1780–1830
Ota Atsushi
6 In the Name of Sovereignty: Spain’s Tackling of ‘Moro’ Piracy in the Sulu Zone, 1768–1898
James Francis Warren

Part 3: Piracy and State in East Asia
7 Piracy Prohibition Edicts and the Establishment of Maritime Control System in Japan, c. 1585–1640
Fujita Tatsuo (translated by Ota Atsushi)
8 The Suppression of Pirates in the China Seas by the Naval Forces of China, Macao, and Britain (1780–1860)
Toyooka Yasufumi and Murakami Ei

Conclusion
Ota Atsushi

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ota Atsushi, Ph.D. (2005), Leiden University, is Associate Professor of Faculty of Economics at Keio University, Japan. His publications include Changes of Regime and Social Dynamics in West Java: Society, State, and the Outer World of Banten, 1750-1830 (Brill, 2006).