Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by Graeber, David

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London: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books. 2023. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. Includes an Appendix - Pirate and Enlightenment Time Line, Notes and Bibliography. xxix, 175 pages. The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land. For Graeber, Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political thought. . Like New. 1st thus. Hardback.

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Allen Lane, 2023. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 208 pages. 8.78x5.63x0.94 inches.

Allen Lane, 2023. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 208 pages. 8.78x5.63x0.94 inches.

Original Hardcover. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. | 2023 | Original Hardcover | 208 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: 'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land. For Graeber, Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political… Read More