{"product_id":"pirate-enlightenment-or-the-real-libertalia-hardcover","title":"Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Graeber\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies--vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn graduate school, David Graeber conducted ethnographic field research in Madagascar for his doctoral thesis on the island's politics and history of slavery and magic. During this time, he encountered the Zana-Malata, an ethnic group of mixed descendants of the many pirates who settled on the island at the beginning of the eighteenth century. \u003ci\u003ePirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia\u003c\/i\u003e, Graeber's final posthumous book, is the outgrowth of this early research and the culmination of ideas that he developed in his classic, bestselling works \u003ci\u003eDebt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e (written with the archaeologist David Wengrow). In this lively, incisive exploration, Graeber considers how the protodemocratic, even libertarian practices of the Zana-Malata came to shape the Enlightenment project defined for too long as distinctly European. He illuminates the non-European origins of what we consider to be \"Western\" thought and endeavors to recover forgotten forms of social and political order that gesture toward new, hopeful possibilities for the future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Graeber\u003c\/b\u003e was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He was the author of \u003ci\u003eDebt: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe First 5,000 Years \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Bullshit Jobs: A Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, among many others books, and the coauthor with David Wengrow of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe was an iconic thinker and a renowned activist, and his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 8.49 x 5.61 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765742797088,"sku":"9780374610197","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/474ad40ba4480cce25c8f593859fb1c1.webp?v=1780278582","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pirate-enlightenment-or-the-real-libertalia-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}