How the French Royal Navy used privateers to augment their naval operations with Henning Hillmann

Henning Hillmann is professor of economic and organizational sociology at the University of Mannheim. He wrote a book on the privateers of France in the long 18th century in order to understand what motivated these privateers and how they organized themselves. We spoke about the book, the privateers, and the French Royal Navy. The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime (Columbia University Press, 2021)

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