Villains of All Nations
Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
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,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8070-9538-6
- EAN: 9780807095386
- Produktnummer: 15727494
- Verlag: Beacon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'259 KB
Über den Autor
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.
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