(Source: Palgrave)
Palgrave is publishing a new book
on the British-Danish diplomatic debate on privateering and neutral ports in
the period 1793-1807.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
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).
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