Republic Of Pirates Being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down
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Uitgever: Pan Macmillan
Auteur:
Colin Woodard
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- Paperback
- 9781447243939
- 16 januari 2014
- 387 pagina's
Colin Woodard
Colin Woodard, an award-winning writer and journalist, is currently the state and national affairs writer at the
Portland Press Herald and
Maine Sunday Telegram and received a 2012 George Polk Award for an investigative project he did for those papers. A longtime foreign correspondent for
The Christian Science Monitor, the
San Francisco Chronicle, and
The Chronicle of Higher Education, he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and seven continents. His work has appeared in dozens of publications, including
The Economist,
Smithsonian,
The Washington Post,
Politico,
Newsweek, The Daily Beast,
The Guardian,
Bloomberg View, and
Washington Monthly. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he is the author of several books, including
American Nations and
The Republic of Pirates.
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For fans of Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new history of the Golden Age of Piracy. . . In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, including Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach and 'Black Sam' Bellamy, joined forces. This infamous 'Flying Gang' was more than simply a thieving band of brothers. Many of its members had come to piracy as a revolt against conditions in the merchant fleet and in the cities and plantations in the Old and New Worlds. Inspired by notions of self-government, they established a crude but distinctive form of democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which indentured servants were released and leaders chosen or deposed by a vote. They were ultimately overcome by their archnemesis, Captain Woodes Rogers-a merchant fleet owner and former privateer - and the brief but glorious Republic of Pirates came to an end. Meticulously researched and full of incident and adventure, The Republic of Pirates brings to life an extraordinary forgotten chapter of history.
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- The Republic of Pirates: How a Band of Thieves Created an Eighteenth-Century Democracy
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