GEOG 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Barry Clifford, Geopolitics, Private Ship
Document Summary
The geopolitics of empires and the real pirates of the caribbean. How political systems and structures influence and are influenced by the spatial distribution of resources, events, groups, through interactions among subnational, national, and international political units across the earth. All political problems with a history have a geography. A region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals. Other european powers move into caribbean from 1600s. Spanish fighting other wars, have a lot going down: beginning of their decline. Rise of english, french, and dutch power. Going into the parts of the new world that spain is having trouble controlling - left over stuff (north america) Geo-economics: sugar and spices (initially gold and silver - what drew everyone to new world) Piracy: war-like act committed by private parties not affiliated with any government. Pirates engage in acts of robbery and violence. Privateer: an armed private ship licensed to attack enemy shipping.
