Calculus / Gudmund R. Iversen

• Record Nr.: UNINA990002589020403321
• Autore: Iversen, Gudmund R.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks : Sage, 1996
• ISBN: 0-8039-7110-9
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 82 p. ; 22 cm
• Collana: Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 110
• Disciplina: 515
• Locazione: MAS
• Collocazione: XXIX-D-103
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The ocean is a wilderness : Atlantic piracy and the limits of state authority, 1688-1856 / / Guy Chet

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465080703321
• Autore: Chet Guy <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-61376-306-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.16409163
• Soggetti: Maritime terrorism - Atlantic Ocean; Maritime terrorism - Great Britain - Prevention; Maritime terrorism - United States - Prevention; Marine insurance - Great Britain - History; Marine insurance - United States - History; Piracy - Atlantic Ocean - History; Smuggling - Atlantic Ocean - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Atlantic frontier : continued piracy through the long eighteenth century -- Frustrated aspirations : the legal and ethical presumptions of the early modern state -- Holding the bag : the marine insurance industry's role in perpetuating and combating piracy -- Smuggling : armed commerce and the severe limits of state enforcement and persuasion.