Overview
- Charts the use that French and Dutch privateers made of ports on the southern and western coasts of Norway as bases for their attacks on the British Baltic Sea and Archangel trades
- Offers new perspectives on the development of international law and diplomacy in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Explores the contemporary debates over both the principle of privateering and neutrality, and its practical application
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This book addresses the British-Danish diplomatic debate on privateering and neutral ports in the period 1793-1807, when Denmark-Norway remained neutral in the war between Britain and France. The British government protested against the use French privateers made of Norwegian ports as bases for their attacks on the British Baltic Sea and Archangel Trades, but the Danish government insisted on keeping the ports open. This led to a running dispute on the relative rights and duties of belligerents and neutrals, but also on violations of the tentative agreement that the two governments reached in 1793. The three main chapters in the book address the principled debate on privateering and neutral ports; the central role played in the debate by the British diplomatic and consular representatives in Denmark-Norway; and privateering in practice. The final two chapters look at the impact of the Dutch change of sides in the war in 1795, and the development from the official closure of the Norwegian ports to privateers in 1799 until Denmark-Norway’s entry into the war on the side of France in 1807.
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About the author
Atle L. Wold is Associate Professor of British Studies at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802 (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Privateering and Diplomacy, 1793–1807
Book Subtitle: Great Britain, Denmark-Norway and the Question of Neutral Ports
Authors: Atle L. Wold
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45186-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45185-1Published: 07 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45188-2Published: 07 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45186-8Published: 06 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European History, Political History, Legal History, History of Military