English Colonialism & Piracy from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Patricia O'Brien discusses English colonialism and piracy.

Speaker Biography: Patricia O'Brien is the current Kislak Fellow for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas at the Kluge Center and a Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University. She is the first full-time faculty member for the Center of Australian and New Zealand Studies, where her research focuses on Australian history, the colonial history of the Pacific, and British imperial history. Currently she is working on histories of Australian imperial relations in the colonies of Papua and New Guinea, New Zealand colonial relations with Samoa and British colonialism, privateers and indigenous contact in the Caribbean.

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