The prize game : lawful looting on the high seas in the days of fighting sail / Donald A. Petrie.
1999
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Author
Title
The prize game : lawful looting on the high seas in the days of fighting sail / Donald A. Petrie.
Published
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [1999]
Copyright
©1999
Call Number
JX5250 P448 1999
ISBN
1557506698 (alk. paper)
Description
xiii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)40660127
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-207) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1
1
The Ransoming of Eliza Swan: On the Ransoming of Vessels and the Practice of Sea Cartels
13
2
Forbidden Prizes: On the Nature of Prizes and the Rights of Captors and Sovereigns
31
3
The Piracy Trial of Luke Ryan: on Letters of Marque and Reprisal and the Distinction Between Piracy and Privateering
47
4
Scourge, Rattle Snake, and True Blooded Yankee: on Access to the Prize Courts of other Nations
83
5
The Seizure of Siren: on the Practice of Blockade and the Spoils of War in Combined Army and Navy Operations
106
Epilogue: On the End of the Prize Game and on the Question of Why it Worked at All
140
App
The Rules of the Prize Game
147
Notes
165
A Bibliography of Accessible Sources
201
Index
209