Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

by Marcus Rediker
ISBN-10:
0807050253
ISBN-13:
9780807050255
Pub. Date:
04/28/2005
Publisher:
Beacon
ISBN-10:
0807050253
ISBN-13:
9780807050255
Pub. Date:
04/28/2005
Publisher:
Beacon
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

by Marcus Rediker
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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807050255
Publisher: Beacon
Publication date: 04/28/2005
Pages: 248
Sales rank: 275,201
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.49(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Marcus Rediker is professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and coauthor of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, which won the International Labor History Association Book Prize in 2001. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is at work on a history of the slave ship.

Table of Contents

1A Tale of Two Terrors1
2The Political Arithmetic of Piracy19
3Who Will Go "a Pyrating"?38
4"The New Government of the Ship"60
5"To Do Justice to Sailors"83
6The Women Pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read103
7"To Extirpate Them Out of the World"127
8"Defiance of Death Itself"148
Conclusion: Blood and Gold170
Notes177
Acknowledgments222
Index226
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