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"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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index

Machine generated contents note: 1. Background -- 1.1. Privateers, Buccaneers, Pirates: Matters Of Terminology -- 1.2. What "Golden Age?" A Little History -- 2."Enemy of His Own Civilization" An Ethnography of Golden Age Piracy -- 2.1."From the Sea": Maritime Nomads -- 2.2."Smooth" vs. "Striated": The Question of Space -- 2.3. Pirate Captains and Indian Chiefs: Remembering Pierre Clastres -- 2.4. Potlatches, Zero-Production, and Parasitism: Pirate Economy -- 2.5. No State, No Accumulation, No History: Pirates as "Primitives"? -- 2.6."Cultural Contact": Pirates and the Non-European People of the Caribbean -- 3."Social Origins," or The European Legacy Golden Age Piracy and Cultural Studies -- 3.1. Fashion, Food, Fun, Lingo: Circumscribing the Pirate Subculture -- 3.2."Villains of all Nations?": Piracy and (Trans)Nationality -- 3.3. Satanists and Sabbatarians: Piracy and Religion -- 3.4.A Colorful Atlantic? Piracy and Race

Contents note continued: 3.5. Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and a Co-opted Myth: Piracy and Gender -- 3.6. On Sodomites and Prostitutes: Piracy and Sexuality -- 3.7. Escaping Discipline and "Biopolitics": The Pirate Body -- 3.8. Eye Patches, Hook Hands, and Wooden Legs: Piracy and Disability -- 4."Ni dieu, ni maitre" Golden Age Piracy and Politics -- 4.1. From "Brethren of the Coast" to a "Commonwealth of Outlaws": Pirate Organization -- 4.2. Flying the Black Flag: The Jolly Roger -- 4.3. Is This Anarchy? Matters of Definition I -- 4.4. The War Machine: Reading Piracy with Deleuze and Guattari -- 4.5. Tactics: Pirates and Guerrilla Warfare -- 4.6. Revolutionary, Radical, and Proletarian Pirates? Matters of Definition II -- 4.7. Pirates as Social Bandits: Homage to E.J. Hobsbawm -- 4.8. Libertalia: Another Reading -- 4.9. Safe Havens, Onshore Settlements, Pirate Utopias: Pirates on Land -- 4.10."Piratical Imperialism," Hypocrisy, and the Merchants' Wrath: Piracy and Capitalism

Contents note continued: 4.11. Victims of Circumstance or Bloodthirsty Sadists? Piracy and Violence -- 4.12. Vengeance as Justice: Pirate Ethics -- 4.13. Dionysus in the West Indies: A Nietzschean Look at Golden Age Piracy -- 5. Conclusion: The Golden Age Pirates' Political Legacy -- 6. Notes on Pirate Literature -- 7. Bibliography

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