Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia Tapa blanda -

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Penguin, 2024. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 208 pages. 7.64x5.04x0.67 inches.

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Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. | 2024 | Mass Market Paperback | 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 GhoshThe 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 - 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.In this jewel of a book, Graeber offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human… Leer más