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Pirate enlightenment, or, The real Libertalia
- Title
- Pirate enlightenment, or, The real Libertalia / David Graeber.
- Author
- Graeber, David
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xxix, 175 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies--vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire. In graduate school, David Graeber conducted ethnographic field research in Madagascar for his doctoral thesis on the island's politics and history of slavery and magic. During this time, he encountered the Zana-Malata, an ethnic group of mixed descendants of the many pirates who settled on the island at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, Graeber's final posthumous book, is the outgrowth of this early research and the culmination of ideas that he developed in his classic, bestselling works Debt and The Dawn of Everything (written with the archaeologist David Wengrow). In this lively, incisive exploration, Graeber considers how the protodemocratic, even libertarian practices of the Zana-Malata came to shape the Enlightenment project defined for too long as distinctly European. He illuminates the non-European origins of what we consider to be "Western" thought and endeavors to recover forgotten forms of social and political order that gesture toward new, hopeful possibilities for the future."--
- Uniform Title
- Pirates des lumières. English
- Alternative Title
- Pirates des lumières.
- Pirate enlightenment
- Real Libertalia
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Previously published in French as Les pirates des lumières by Libertalia Press in 2019.
- "The final book from David Graeber, the iconic intellectual, activist, and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything"--Provided by publisher.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175).
- Language (note)
- In English, translated from French.
- Contents
- Part I. Pirates and mock kings of the Malagasy northeast -- Part II. The advent of the pirates from a Malagasy point of view -- Part III. Pirate enlightenment.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-1311
- ISBN
- 9780374610197
- 0374610193
- LCCN
- 2022043530
- 40031682915
- OCLC
- 1349652316
- Author
- Graeber, David, author.
- Title
- Pirate enlightenment, or, The real Libertalia / David Graeber.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175).
- Language
- In English, translated from French.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Other Form:
- Online version: Graeber, David. Pirates des lumières. English. Pirate enlightenment, or, The real Libertalia. First American edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 9780374610203 (OCoLC)1365399163
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40031682915
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-1311