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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsContents 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 Qawāsimi 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
