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“Manuel Barcia brilliantly shows how the concept ‘pirate’—the maritime equivalent of ‘barbarian’—served the vast and violent purposes of empire. He also demonstrates that the theme of piracy broadly conceived now attracts the best scholars exploring the biggest issues in global history.”—Marcus Rediker, author of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age “With deep research, keen analysis, and narrative flair, Manuel Barcia captures the violence and duplicity of nineteenth-century empires who targeted real and invented instances of maritime raiding in the name of civilization and in service of their own power.”—Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago “A bold and wide-ranging study that masterfully connects the suppression of piracy to imperial policies and expansion around the world—rich in sources, global in scope, and full of insight.”—Stefan Eklöf Amirell, author of Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia “Pirate Imperialism is a virtuoso history of how Europeans used the cause of suppressing piracy to justify overseas violence. Drawing on sources in a dozen languages, Barcia exposes how maritime empires ruthlessly secured their interests under the mask of the rule of law.”— Richard Drayton, King’s College London “In the name of battling piracy and slavery, Western empires articulated a sweeping discourse of antipiracy to justify the most violent forms of amphibious imperialism, securing new, pliable markets worldwide. Barcia deftly explores the mid-nineteenth-century global uses of terror to defeat local ‘evil.’”—Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, coauthor of The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World

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Manuel Barcia is pro-vice-chancellor for global engagement at the University of Bath. He has published five books, the most recent of which, The Yellow Demon of Fever, won the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize.

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