 | Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution. In Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots, Tyson Reeder examines the Portuguese Empire's response to the liberation movements sweeping Latin America in comparison to the British Empire's response to the American Revolution. It reveals how those differences led to turbulent transnational exchanges between the United States and Brazil as merchants, smugglers, rogue officials, slave traders, and pirates sought to trade outside legal confines. Reeder explains how the differences between the Portuguese and... - Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution. |
