Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

The number of books written about the American Revolution could fill a fleet of wooden ships, but very few have focused specifically on the role of privateers. Eric Jay Dolin has produced a lively and authoritative account that contends that privateers' impact on the conflict was both central and contradictory:Countering the contemporary and modern critics who have questioned privateers' loyalty and labeled them “profiteers” or “pirates,” Dolin's account unveils the crucial contribution of Yankee privateers in the war for American independence.