الإمبريالية القرصانية

Pirate Imperialism(https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269451/pirate-imperialism/), the first truly global history of the suppression of piracy, links naval raiding and empire-building in the nineteenth century. In the mid-nineteenth century, imperial powers around the world came into direct confrontation with local resistance in the form of naval raiding. From the Atlantic basin to the western Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the eastern coast of Africa, Southeast Asia and China, the imperial powers claimed progress to be faltering due to the barbarism and greed of pirates, who repeatedly attacked imperial ships. The suppression of piracy, justified under the slogan of spreading civilization, free trade, and the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, provided both Western and non-Western powers with a backdoor for territorial expansion and the imposition of imperialist agendas. Historian Manuel Barcia tells the story of these conflicts, showing how imperial powers used anti-naval raiding efforts as a pretext to establish Western hegemony around the world, while at the same time resorting to violent means indistinguishable from those they accused of piracy.