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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Author: Marcus Rediker
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2005-04-15
ISBN: 0807050253
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Beacon Press

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Book Review: A Beautifully Researched Read
Summary: 5 Stars

Marcus Rediker has written what is easily the most fascinating account of piracy to date. Approaching piracy from the perspective of what can only be described as an ethnographer-historian, Dr. Rediker presents us with several mind-blowing proposals:
- Pirates had set up egalitarian societies, racially and sexually
- Pirates were, for all the bad rap they get, rather reluctant killers
- Pirates challenged a status quo that was fundamentally unjust

At first glance, it would appear that Rediker had a difficult job ahead of him. However, through careful research, he begins unraveling the mythology of piracy we receive through popular culture, and challenges our beliefs on each of those points in turn.

I literally cannot recommend this book enough. If you are interested in pirates in any academic sense, I refer you to this book.

Put down Defoe, before it's too late, and pick this one up. You'll thank me later.

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Summary of 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, 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.

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