Between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, various European countries ventured into the Atlantic and founded far-flung maritime empires. This class will examine the economic, political, and socio-cultural developments of the competition for the Atlantic World at sea- emphasizing the rise of trade, piracy, and war between the English, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish maritime empires.
Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome, Captain Kidd in New York Harbor, c. 1920, (Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation), https://tinyurl.com/5n6wcj3s
William Kidd, also know as Captain William Kidd or Captain Kidd, was a pirate of the 17th Century. As a privateer for England, his most famous voyage was sponsored by powerful players in England. Their patronage tied him to the Whig Party and, as this political party lost favor in England, so did Kidd with merchants and shipowners. He was arrested on July 6, 1699 and hung in May of 1701. Kidd is often represented as a symbol of changing conditions "in the emergence of the modern administrative state" (Larson, 2022).
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
Alan Taylor
ISBN: 978-0142002100
Print copy available in West Catalog here
Anon. Engraved Portrait of Sir Francis Drake, (1540–1596). n.d. https://jstor.org/stable/community.30137062.
