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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780807050255
内容简介
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.–From the Hardcover edition.
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.–From the Hardcover edition.
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