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    Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
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    Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

    Written by Marcus Rediker

    Narrated by Cornell Womack

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 26, 2019
    ISBN9780807081129
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    Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
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    Marcus Rediker

    Marcus Rediker (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including The Many-Headed Hydra (with Peter Linebaugh), The Slave Ship, and The Amistad Rebellion. He produced the award-winning documentary film Ghosts of Amistad (Tony Buba, director), about the popular memory of the Amistad rebellion of 1839 in contemporary Sierra Leone.

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