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Enemy of All Mankind

A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

ISBN-13: 9780735211605

Contributor(s): Steven Johnson

Subject: History

Publisher Imprint: Riverhead

Publication Date: 28-05-2020

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£24.99

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About the book

Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global economy. Johnson uses the extraordinary story of Henry Avery and his crimes to explore the emergence of the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations.