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This title in other formats:Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Ageby Marcus Buford Rediker
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Villains of All Nations explores the “Golden Age” of Atlantic piracy (1716–1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, unlimbed pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson’s model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. This history shows from the bottom up how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own ships, electing their officers, dividing their booty equitably, and maintaining a multinational social order. The real lives of this motley crew—which included cross-dressing women, people of color, and the “outcasts of all nations”—are far more compelling than contemporary myth. “Marcus Rediker knows pirates, and he knows how to tell a story. Villains of All Nations is a must read; don’t wait for the movie!” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Book News Annotation:Focusing on the high-seas drama during the decade from 1716 to 1726,
Rediker (history, U. of Pittsburgh) offers a social and cultural
history of pirates and the reaction to them in the English colonies
of North America. Poor seamen, former slaves, and women who turned
pirate raised issues respectively about class, race, and gender, he
says, and the need and tendency to demonize a group as a threat to
civilization was as alive then as now.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Atlantic pirates in the golden age, 1716-1726. Synopsis:An unprecedented social and cultural history of pirates that reveals their astonishingly democratic, egalitarian, and multiethnic society. About the AuthorMarcus Rediker, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of the award-winning Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. He lives in Pittsburgh. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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