Villains of All Nations by Marcus Buford Rediker

Villains of All Nations by Marcus Buford Rediker

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.

Marcus Rediker is a University of Pittsburgh history professor. He is the coauthor of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Secret History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, which won the International Labor History Association Book Award in 2001. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is working on a slave ship history.

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ISBN 13	9780807050248
ISBN 10	0807050245
Title	Villains of All Nations
Author	Marcus Buford Rediker
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Beacon Press
Year published	2004-06-15
Number of pages	240
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