Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Pirates and politicians: what a 300-year-old book about the most notorious buccaneers reveals about British politics

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par Richard Blakemore, Associate Professor in Social and Maritime History, University of Reading

Three hundred years ago, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson first hit the shelves of London’s booksellers. The book aimed, according to Johnson, to give “a distinct Relation of every Pyrate who has made any Figure”.

Here were all the fabled plunderers of the seas: Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, Anne Bonny and Mary Read and many others. More than any other book, the General History changed the way…

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