One part of this effort has been an impassioned and creative reconstruction of the meaning of piracy and the agency of those who sailed under the Jolly Roger. Marcus Rediker has done just this in his writings on seafaring labor in the transatlantic age of Empireâs expansion. IEW Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age Marcus Rediker Boston: Beacon, 2004 240 pp., $24.00 (cloth) Few historians inspire us to rethink a subject, bringing to life a new vision of past peoples. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas Duke University Press He draws on previously published book chapters and essays, updating his evidence with new findings and extending his reach by addressing the experience Rediker brings his almost thirty years of interest in pirates together in this admirably researched and elegantly concentrated synthesis, whose focus is on the Atlantic buccaneers of the Golden Age of piracy, from 1716 to 1726. We can now appreciate these men and a few women of the deep as outlaws and rebels, dispossessed proletarians engaged, at times, in an insurrectionary current of social, political, cultural, and economic import that swept ideas of resistance and material challenges to authority into the making of the advanced capitalist world of the eighteenth century.

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

Villains of all nations