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- catalog abstract ""Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Historian Marcus Rediker focuses on the high-seas drama of 1716-1726, which featured the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, pegleg pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island." "This exploration shows how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own vessels. At their best, pirates constructed their own distinctive egalitarian society, electing officers, dividing their booty equitably, and maintaining a multinational social order." "This unprecedented social and cultural history proves that 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. Pirates challenged and subverted prevailing conventions of race, class, gender, and nationality, posing a radical democratic challenge to the society they left behind. They dared to play the rebellious villains on a floating international stage. The authorities hanged them for it, but the pirates triumphed in the end, winning the battle for the popular imagination in their own day and in ours."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13313011.
- catalog coverage "Atlantic Coast (U.S.) History, Naval 18th century.".
- catalog coverage "Caribbean Area History, Naval 18th century.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. Historian Marcus Rediker focuses on the high-seas drama of 1716-1726, which featured the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, pegleg pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island." "This exploration shows how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own vessels. At their best, pirates constructed their own distinctive egalitarian society, electing officers, dividing their booty equitably, and maintaining a multinational social order." "This unprecedented social and cultural history proves that 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. Pirates challenged and subverted prevailing conventions of race, class, gender, and nationality, posing a radical democratic challenge to the society they left behind. They dared to play the rebellious villains on a floating international stage. The authorities hanged them for it, but the pirates triumphed in the end, winning the battle for the popular imagination in their own day and in ours."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A tale of two terrors -- The political arithmetic of piracy -- Who will go "a pyrating"? -- "The new government of the ship" -- "To do justice to sailors" -- The women pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read -- "To extirpate them out of the world" -- "Defiance of death itself" -- Conclusion: Blood and gold.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-221) and index.".
- catalog extent "240 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Villains of all nations.".
- catalog identifier "0807050245 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807050253".
- catalog identifier "9780807050255".
- catalog isFormatOf "Villains of all nations.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Villains of all nations.".
- catalog spatial "Atlantic Coast (U.S.) History, Naval 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Atlantic Coast (U.S.)".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area History, Naval 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Caribbean Area".
- catalog subject "910.4/5 22".
- catalog subject "F106 .R42 2004".
- catalog subject "Pirates Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Biography.".
- catalog subject "Pirates Atlantic Coast (U.S.) History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Pirates Caribbean Area History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A tale of two terrors -- The political arithmetic of piracy -- Who will go "a pyrating"? -- "The new government of the ship" -- "To do justice to sailors" -- The women pirates: Anne Bonny and Mary Read -- "To extirpate them out of the world" -- "Defiance of death itself" -- Conclusion: Blood and gold.".
- catalog title "Villains of all nations : Atlantic pirates in the golden age / Marcus Rediker.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Naval history. fast".
- catalog type "text".