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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tyson Reeder fills a major gap in the historiography of the Age of Revolutions: Luso-Atlantic trade. Reeder marshals diplomatic records, merchants' papers, newspapers, and trade statistics from three continents to connect Anglo-American officials and merchants with their Luso-Brazilian counterparts. The book's connection of economics, foreign relations, race, and ideology represents the virtues of comparative transnational work. Reeder deftly navigates the tensions between government and private interests and between slavery and freedom to ultimately show that free trade, imperialism, and slavery were impossible to disentangle, and that North Americans' contradictory ideas about race and republicanism are best revealed by comparing and connecting the British and Portuguese Empires." *
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"Reeder offers a compelling investigation of trade mentalities and ideological projection…[and his] comparative commercial psychoanalysis illuminates deep connections between Brazil and the early United States that scholars have often overlooked. His research is deeply grounded in archival material from Brazil, Portugal, the United States, and Britain…[A]n an important book for historians of Atlantic commerce and early US–Latin American relations." * Hispanic American Historical Reviw *
"An important and influential book. Integrating North and South Atlantic dynamics and Anglo and Iberian Atlantic worlds,
Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots provides an original and insightful contribution to debates on sovereignty, free trade, mercantilism, independence movements, regional identities, and U.S. state formation." * Fabricio Prado, College of William and Mary *
"Tyson Reeder demonstrates an extraordinary command of both English- and Portuguese-language primary sources as well as the larger conceptual framework of a major transformation in commerce in the Atlantic world during the age of revolution." * Paul Gilje, University of Oklahoma *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Introduction. Contraband, Plunder, and Revolution
PART I. NEGOTIATING EMPIRE
Chapter 1. Empire and Commerce
Chapter 2. The Plague of States
PART II. REGULATION AND REVOLUTION
Chapter 3. A Fractured Empire
Chapter 4. Duties and Discouragements
PART III. A LIBERTY OF TRADE
Chapter 5. Republicans and Smugglers
Chapter 6. Opened Ports, Restricted Trade
PART IV. "CONNEXIONS OF COMMERCE AND LIBERATION"
Chapter 7. Patriots of Pernambuco
Chapter 8. Republican Pirates
Chapter 9. Republics, Monarchies, and Commerce
Epilogue. Two Americas
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
