Lawrence Babits

Wade Dudley

Lynn Harris

Calvin Mires

Michael Palmer

Gerald Prokopowicz

Nathan Richards

Bradley Rodgers

David Stewart

Carl Swanson

Carl E. Swanson (Ph.D., Western Ontario)


Associate Professor. His research interests include privateering and colonial maritime and economic history. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Maritime History. Swanson has won several awards including the John Lyman Book Award presented by the North American Society for Oceanic History and the Keith Matthews Prize by the Canadian Nautical Research Society (1986) and an East Carolina University teaching award. He is the author of Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748 (1991). His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Maritime History, William and Mary Quarterly, and The American Neptune. He teaches maritime and colonial American history.

Email: swansonc@ecu.edu

Monographs and Books

1991 Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia.

Book Chapters

2004 Introduction. In Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763, Elizabeth Harman, author. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

1996 Admiralty Law. In Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia, Alan Gallay, editor, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, NY.

1996 Impressment. In Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia, Alan Gallay, editor. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, NY.

1996 Dry-docks. In Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia, Alan Gallay, editor. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, NY.

1996 Privateering. In Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia, Alan Gallay, editor. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, NY.

1996 Smuggling. In Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763: An Encyclopedia, Alan Gallay, editor. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, NY.

Journals

1997 Privateering on the Carolina Coast During King George’s War. Tributaries VII: 15-30.

 

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Department of History

Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences