Life Under the Jolly Roger
Subtitle: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy
By: Gabriel Kuhn
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oakland, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781604860528
Description: "Life Under the Jolly Roger examines the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by relating historical accounts to a wide range of theoretical concepts - reaching from Marshall Sahlins and Pierre Clastres to Mao-Tse Tung and Eric J. Hobsbawm via Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault. The meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and disability in golden age pirate communities are analysed and contextualized, as are the pirates' forms of organization, economy, and ethics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index.