David Graeber: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar [2023] hardback Condition:New cultural observer and social satirist

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David Graeber: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar [2023] hardback Condition:New cultural observer and social satirist'A characteristically radical re reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden