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EAN: | 9780241611401 |
Publicatie datum: | 30-01-2023 |
Uitvoering: | Hardback |
Taal: | Engels |
Aantal pagina's: | 208 |
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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 Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land.
For Graeber, Madag
EAN: | 9780241611401 |
Uitgever: | Penguin Group |
Publicatie datum: | 30-01-2023 |
Uitvoering: | Hardback |
Taal: | Engels |
Status: | Bestelbaar |
Aantal pagina's: | 208 |
Keywords: | zeeroverij;geschiedenis;democratie |