The Republic Of Pirates by Colin Woodard
Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
A vivid history of the Golden Age of Piracy centered on the makeshift haven in New Providence, Bahamas, tracing how former privateers-turned-outlaws like Blackbeard, Charles Vane, and “Calico Jack” Rackham built egalitarian, multiethnic crews, challenged imperial trade, and briefly forged a self-governing “republic” at sea. It explores the economic upheavals after the War of the Spanish Succession, the social order aboard pirate ships, and the crackdown led by Woodes Rogers that dismantled the experiment, revealing the blurred lines between empire, commerce, and criminality in the early 18th-century Atlantic.
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- Published
- 2007
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400
- Original Language
- English
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