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9780807050255

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807050255

  • ISBN10:

    0807050253

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-04-15
  • Publisher: Beacon Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Marcus 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.

Table of Contents

One: A Tale of Two Terrors 1(18)
Two: The Political Arithmetic of Piracy 19(19)
Three: Who Will Go "a Pyrating"? 38(22)
Four: "The New Government of the Ship" 60(23)
Five: "To Do Justice to Sailors" 83(20)
Six: The Women Pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read 103(24)
Seven: "To Extirpate Them Out of the World" 127(21)
Eight: "Defiance of Death Itself" 148(22)
Conclusion: Blood and Gold 170(7)
Notes 177(45)
Acknowledgments 222(4)
Index 226

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