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The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept


ISBN13: 9781138211308
Published: July 2016
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2015)
Price: £49.99
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The image of the pirate is at once spectral and ubiquitous. It haunts the imagination of international legal scholars, diplomats and statesmen involved in the war on terror. It returns in the headlines of international newspapers as an untimely ‘security threat’.

Today, the pirate remains a powerful political icon, embodying at once the persistent nightmare of an anomic wilderness at the fringe of civilization, and the fantasy of a possible anarchic freedom beyond the rigid norms of the state and of the market. And yet, what are the origins of this persistent ‘pirate myth’ in the Western political imagination?

Can we trace the historical trajectory that has charged this ambiguous figure with the emotional, political and imaginary tensions that continue to characterize it? What can we learn from the history of piracy and the ways in which it intertwines with the history of imperialism and international trade?

Drawing on international law, political theory, and popular literature, The Pirate Myth offers an authoritative genealogy of this immortal political and cultural icon, showing that the history of piracy – the different ways in which pirates have been used, outlawed and suppressed by the major global powers, but also fantasized, imagined and romanticised by popular culture – can shed unexpected light on the different forms of violence that remain at the basis of our contemporary global order.

Subjects:
Legal History
Contents:
Introduction

Part I: Pirate Figures (1400-1800)
1. Persecutio Piratarum: Pirate Outlaws and the Roman Empire
2. The Christian Commonwealth: Pirates, Heretics and Inquisitors
3. Zones of plunder: Piracy and primitive accumulation
4. Enemies of All Nations: Piracy and the World Market, Intermezzo: The Romance of Piracy

PartII Pirate Spectres (1800-2012)
5. The Empire of Free Trade: Liberal Universalism and the Pirate States
6. Pirate Spectres: Rightless Outlaws in the Age of Total War
7. Terrorists, Pirates and Rogue States: Global Police Today, Conclusion

Series: Law and the Postcolonial

The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept ISBN 9781138797314
Published January 2015
Routledge
£150.00
The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept (eBook) ISBN 9781317632528
Published January 2015
Routledge
Out of print
£145.00
Out of print