Carla Gardina Pestana, discusses, “Pirates and the Problem of Authority in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World”. Pestana is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. This discussion was included in the conference session topic, “Pirates and Piracy”.

Pirates and the Problem of Authority in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World

This conference explores the shadowy realms of the Atlantic that connected four continents but also disrupted its various imperial structures. The participants will investigate important historical and historiographical questions about the nature of unlawful exchanges and the relationship between settler-colonists, pirates, and smugglers in the creation of “illicit Atlantic worlds” beyond state control.

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Pirates and the Problem of Authority in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World