Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything . Pirates 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. In graduate school, David Graeber conducted ethnographic field research in