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Captain Kidd: Privateer, Pirate and Agent of Empire?

Tom Wareham | Published in History Today Volume 63 Issue 1 January 2013

The trial of Captain William Kidd raised uncomfortable questions for the state about the pirate’s role in the consolidation of England’s early overseas empir

A Portuguese merchant is greeted by his Indian household, early 16th century.

Portugal: The First Global Empire

Roger Crowley | Published in History Today Volume 65 Issue 10 October 2015

Poor and small, Portugal was at the edge of late medieval Europe. But its seafarers created the age of ‘globalisation’, which continues to this day.