The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
by: Colin Woodard
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Dewey Decimal Number: 972
EAN: 9780156034623
ISBN: 015603462X
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: June 30, 2008
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 57972
Studio: Mariner Books
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Welcome to the Pirate Republic—the early-eighteenth-century home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, 'Black Sam' Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates—former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves—this 'Flying Gang' established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which servants were free, blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or deposed by a vote.
For a brief, glorious period the Pirate Republic was enormously successful. It cut off trade routes, sacked slave ships, and severed Europe from its New World empires. Imperial authorities and wealthy shipowners denounced its residents as the enemies of mankind, but common people saw them as heroes. Colin Woodard tells the dramatic untold story of the Pirate Republic that shook the very foundations of the British and Spanish Empires and fanned the democratic sentiments that would one day drive the American Revolution.
For a brief, glorious period the Pirate Republic was enormously successful. It cut off trade routes, sacked slave ships, and severed Europe from its New World empires. Imperial authorities and wealthy shipowners denounced its residents as the enemies of mankind, but common people saw them as heroes. Colin Woodard tells the dramatic untold story of the Pirate Republic that shook the very foundations of the British and Spanish Empires and fanned the democratic sentiments that would one day drive the American Revolution.
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- Republic of DullnessI hate to be the one that drops the review average, but for a book about pirates it was surprisingly ... Read More
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- Provides a fascinating history of real pirate worldsCaptains such as Blackbeard and Charles Vane created the 'Flying Gang' and established the Pirate Republic ... Read More
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- The Golden Age of Piracy: crime and adventure in its contextThe Golden Age of Piracy, roughly a 30 year period at the beginning of the 18th century, has taken on such ... Read More
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- The republic of PiratesColin Woodard has done a great job in documenting all we know about the Caribbean Pirates. I like the level ... Read More
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- Better than ExpectedThis book was very descriptive and detailed. All the pirates, their crews, and ships were all named, and a few ... Read More
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