When Thieves Retire
Francis Gooding: Pirate Enlightenment, 30 March 2023
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
by David Graeber.
Allen Lane, 208 pp., £18.99, January,978 0 241 61140 1 Show More
by David Graeber.
Allen Lane, 208 pp., £18.99, January,
“... when he rose to power. As a child he had visited England, most likely with his father (‘Captain Tom’), receiving at least a partial education. In the conventional accounts he is presented as an enlightened visionary who sought to bring contemporary science and letters to a new nation modelled on the states of Europe. But it seems that his confederation ... ”