Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution (Early American Studies)

CONTENTS
Introduction - Contraband, Plunder, and Revolution

PART I. NEGOTIATING EMPIRE
1. Empire and Commerce
2. The Plague of States

PART II. REGULATION AND REVOLUTION
3. A Fractured Empire
4. Duties and Discouragements

PART III. A LIBERTY OF TRADE
5. Republicans and Smugglers
6. Opened Ports, Restricted Trade

PART IV. "CONNEXIONS OF COMMERCE AND LIBERATION"
7. Patriots of Pernambuco
8. Republican Pirates
9. Republics, Monarchies, and Commerce

Epilogue. Two Americas

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments