Editorial: Brill
Colección: Studies in the History of International Law ; 62/24
Número de páginas: 426 págs.
Fecha de edición: 13-04-2023
EAN: 9789004541405
ISBN: 978-90-04-54140-5
Precio (sin IVA): 148,40 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 154,34 €
Privateering was legal whereas piracy was illegal. That much everyone knows. But what exactly was privateering? Answering this question turns out to depend not so much on the relationship between privateering and piracy as on the relationship between privateering and other forms of maritime raiding that had been considered legal long before the word ‘privateering’, or the practice it denoted, came into existence. This book clarifies all these relationships and explains how privateering emerged as a new legal category in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.