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Book Review: Emergence of Cochin in the Pre-Industrial Era

statesmen were reluctant to test its abilities. Moreover, the first North American squadron was created only in 1745. Prior to that date fishery protection appeared the Admiralty's chief order of business in America. The author's own discussion (pp. 172-176) of the navy's failure to protect South Carolina's valuable rice trade in the face of Spanish depredations clearly indicates the navy's marginal interest in North America. If privateering were a form of imperial warfare it is curious that the most imperially-minded colonial governor, William Shirley, had little use for it, and that Boston's merchants preferred naval contracts to investing in private men-of-war. One could just as well argue on the basis of the author's own evidence that privateering was not a substitute, but rather competed with and subverted imperial warfare. Privateering is a neglected aspect of America's eighteenthcentury history. Yet it touched on political, economic, maritime and imperial dimensions of this history. Regardless of its eventual reception, this book will be of considerable value to anyone interested in these topics. Its revisions of several accepted points of view and attempt to broaden America's maritime commercial history during the first mid-century wars against Spain and France ought to attract a wide audience.