Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy - Couverture souple

Kuhn, Gabriel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1629637939 ISBN 13 : 9781629637938

Editeur : PM Press, 2020

Synopsis

Over the last couple of decades, an ideological battle has raged over the political legacy and cultural symbolism of the 'golden age' pirates who roamed the seas between the Caribbean Islands and the Indian Ocean from 1690 to 1725. They are depicted as romanticized villains on the one hand and as genuine social rebels on the other. Life Under the Jolly Roger examines the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by relating historical accounts to a wide range of theoretical concepts - reaching from Marshall Sahlins and Pierre Clastres to Mao Zedong and Eric J. Hobsbawm via Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault. With daring theoretical speculation and passionate, respectful inquiry, Gabriel Kuhn skillfully contextualises and analyzes the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and disability in golden age pirate communities, while also surveying the breathtaking array of pirates - forms of organization, economy, and ethics. Life Under the Jolly Roger also provides an extensive catalog of scholarly references for the academic reader. Yet this delightful and engaging study is written in language that is wholly accessible for a wide audience. This expanded second edition includes an appendix with interviews about contemporary piracy, the ongoing fascination with pirate imagery, and the thorny issue of colonial implications in the romanticization of pirates.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gabriel Kuhn is an author, translator, and union activist. He has published widely in English and German. His texts have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1629637939
• ISBN 13: 9781629637938
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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