Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marcus RedikerSeries:Beacon ClassicsPublish date:2025-04-08Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Beacon PressISBN-13:9780807018873ISBN-10:807018872UPC:9780807018873Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Maritime History & Piracy, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Social Classes & Economic DisparitySize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.15Product ID:SCSJ3SD255
A must-have hardcover edition of the watershed book on 18th-century pirates and the amazingly democratic and egalitarian communities they created Part of the Beacon Classics series 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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Beacon PressISBN-13:9780807018873ISBN-10:807018872UPC:9780807018873Book Category:History, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Maritime History & Piracy, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Social Classes & Economic DisparitySize:9.10 x 6.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.15Product ID:SCSJ3SD255
Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several books including The Amistad Rebellion (Viking 2012) and The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon 2000). He worked with David Lester and Paul Buhle to adapt his book The Fearless Benjamin Lay (2017) into Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, a Graphic Novel (Beacon, 2021) and Villains of All Nations into Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel (Beacon 2023).
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