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All in all, Privateers of the Americas is a solid contribution to the literature regarding Spanish American privateering. Head has presented a fine distillation of the privateering enterprise. His research is admirable, his writing style is eminently readable, and his analysis of the workings of the business of Spanish American privateering is unassailable.--Fred Leiner The Northern Mariner

Head provides fascinating accounts of privateering in thoughtful and engaging prose. Appropriate for both university and public libraries.--M.A. Burkholder Choice All in all, Privateers of the Americas is a solid contribution to the literature regarding Spanish American privateering. Head has presented a fine distillation of the privateering enterprise. His research is admirable, his writing style is eminently readable, and his analysis of the workings of the business of Spanish American privateering is unassailable.--Fred Leiner The Northern Mariner Head effectively explores the world of privateers in the early American Republic and illustrates how the complicated geopolitical context in the Americas, at least between 1808 and 1820, promoted privateering. . . It is an enjoyable read on a topic that is understudied in privateering history and the history of the early American Republic.--Patrick Klinger H-War, H-Net Reviews By focusing on the Atlantic world instead of continental borderlands, this book contributes a new perspective to the literature on U.S. relations with Spanish America during the age of revolution. . . . The book's key contributions lie in its careful elucidation of the mechanics of privateering and how the enterprise was shaped by interrelated incentives in international relations, local markets, and federal law.--Dael A. Norwood Journal of American History All in all, Privateers of the Americas is a solid contribution to the literature regarding Spanish American privateering. Head has presented a fine distillation of the privateering enterprise. His research is admirable, his writing style is eminently readable, and his analysis of the workings of the business of Spanish American 'privateering' is unassailable.--Fred Leiner Northern Mariner In Privateers of the Americas, David Head persuasively argues that privateering also provides a useful lens for examining American diplomatic history in the early nineteenth century. His book also clearly demonstrates the complicated interrelationships - the 'geopolitics' - that bound together the United States, Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, and the emerging revolutionary republics of Latin America in a complicated Atlantic world.--Carl E. Swanson International Journal of Maritime History

Head provides fascinating accounts of privateering in thoughtful and engaging prose. Appropriate for both university and public libraries.--M.A. Burkholder Choice

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DAVID HEAD is a lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida and the author of Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic (Georgia).

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