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Piracy in the Atlantic World : ウィキペディア英語版 | Piracy in the Atlantic World
Piracy was a phenomenon that was not limited to the Caribbean region. Golden Age pirates roamed off the coast of North America, Africa and the Caribbean. == The Atlantic world and piracy ==
Pirates and sailors are important in understanding how the Atlantic world looked. Defying traditional alliances, attacking and capturing merchant vessels of all nations, pirates wreaked havoc on an emerging economic system, disrupted trade routes and created a crisis within an increasingly important system of trade centered on the Atlantic world.〔Marcus Rediker, ''Villains of all nations : Atlantic pirates in the golden age'' (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004).〕 They were ready and willing participants in the exchange of people, ideas, and commodities around the Atlantic basin affecting the creation and destruction of communities.〔J.H. Elliot, ''"Atlantic History: A Circumnavigation," in The British Atlantic World'', 1500–1800, eds. Armitage, David and Michael J. Braddick (New York: Palgrave, 2002).〕 Trade routes along the Middle Passage were one of the main cogs in establishing what is known as capitalism today. For pirates in the Atlantic World, trade routes are fortuitous, because of the vast wealth they supply in the way of cargo that moved along the Middle Passage. From 1715 to 1728, pirate activity created problems for merchant ships along the trade routes, thus halting growth during that period.〔 As piracy along the Middle Passage increased, so did the need for owners of the merchant vessels to insure the cargo on board their ships, because not only was there threat of loss from natural disaster, there was the chance the cargo could be lost to plundering pirates. "The genius of insurance," in the way it contributes to finance capitalism, is the insistence that the real test of something's value comes not at the moment it is made or exchanged, but at the moment it is lost or destroyed.〔Ian Baucom, ''Specters of the Atlantic'' (Duke University Press, 2005).〕
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