2009
DOI: 10.1017/s0165115300016259
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Life on the Margins: (Ex) Buccaneers and Spanish Subjects on the Campeche Logwood Periphery, 1660-1716

Abstract: In 1675, William Dampier set sail from Jamaica for the Bay of Campeche on Mexico's Yucatán coast to trade for logwood. Dampier, who would later become famous as a naturalist, a buccaneer, and one of the foremost chroniclers of the Golden Age of English buccaneering, recorded his experiences over the course of a year spent in English logwood communities near this Spanish settlement. The author's account gives a fascinating portrayal of a society beyond the margins of imperial control. In Laguna de Términos, an … Show more

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“… Cromwell, “Life on the Margins.” On smuggling in the early modern Atlantic more generally see Klooser, “Inter‐Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600–1800.”…”
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“… Cromwell, “Life on the Margins.” On smuggling in the early modern Atlantic more generally see Klooser, “Inter‐Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600–1800.”…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%