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  1. Jan 2024
  2. Mar 2023
    1. Graeber, David. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

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  3. Feb 2023
    1. Peter the Greatcontemplated using alliance with the pirates to establish a Russiancolony on Madagascar.5
    2. TheSwedish government actually signed initial treaties and prepared tosend an ambassador before discovering the ruse;
  4. Jan 2023
    1. one reason the Golden Age of Piracy remains the stuff oflegend is that pirates of that age were so skilled at manipulatinglegends; they deployed wonder-stories—whether of terrifyingviolence or inspiring ideals—as something very much like weaponsof war, even if the war in question was the desperate and ultimatelydoomed struggle of a motley band of outlaws against the entireemerging structure of world authority at the time.
    2. One might call pirate legends, then, the most importantform of poetic expression produced by that emerging North Atlanticproletariat whose exploitation laid the ground for the industrialrevolution.
  5. Mar 2022