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Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. The high-seas drama of 1716-1726 featured the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Blackbeard; and the unnamed pegleg pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. Rediker shows how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own vessels. At their best, pirates constructed an egalitarian society starkly at odds with the social hierarchy of their time. They elected officers, divided their booty equitably, and maintained a multinational social order. Villains of All Nations is an unprecedented social and cultural history of life on the high seas; it delves into the myths and realities of pirate life that captured the popular imagination in their day and continue to do so in ours.

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Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Coll√(R)ge d'Äô√(c)tudes mondiales in Paris. His books have won numerous awards and been translated into fourteen languages. Rediker is also the producer of the prize-winning documentary film Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (Tony Buba, director), about the popular memory of the 1839 Amistad rebellion in contemporary Sierra Leone. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cornell Womack is an experienced narrator and actor whose projects vary from sophisticated and professional to suspenseful and energetic. His voiceover credits include popular television shows, movies, and video games.

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