GOVT3999 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Dawning, Ming Dynasty, Worldscale
23 Dec 2018
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Textbook chapter 2, anne perotin-dumon, the pirate and the. Description of piracy that spans the ages: illegal and armed aggression at points of maritime traffic that are important but under weak political control. When war and commerce went together it was pi racy. Violence was not a trait of piracy but of commerce of that age. Commercial profits were linked to considerations of war and aggression. It arises from a change in the political realm -the will of the state to establish commercial hegemony over an area or from conflict between two political entities. The political will and policies that created merchant empires at the time produced the piracy of that age. Pirates existed where commerce is active must be joined with changes in the political realm-the will of a state to establish commercial hegemony over an area or conflict.
