Camille’s Reviews > Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail > Status Update

This is a collection of essays spanning Rediker’s 30 years of research on pirates as the creators and transmitters of liberation ideologies and authoritarian resistance. Though not the main thrust of this collection, it deftly shows that the standard story of the formation of America by the founding fathers is woefully deficient.