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The Devil's Anarchy (Second Edition)

The Sea Robberies of the Most Famous Pirate Claes G. Compaen & the Very Remarkable Travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, Buccan

ISBN-13: 9781570272943

Contributor(s): Stephen Snelders

Subjects: History

Publisher: Autonomedia

Publisher Imprint: Autonomedia

Publication Date: 02-05-2014

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£8.99

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About the book

By rebelling against hierarchical society and living under the Jolly Roger, pirates created an upside-down world of anarchist organisation and festival, with violence and death ever-present. This creation was not a purely whimsical process. In Devil's Anarchy, Stephen Snelders focuses on Claes Compaen and examines rare 17th-century Dutch pirate histories to show the continuity of a shared pirate culture, embodied in its modes of organisation and methods of distributing booty and resolving disputes, as well as their tendencies for high living.

The Devil's Anarchy (Second Edition)

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