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Enemy of all mankind a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt

"How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his captur...

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Main Author: Johnson, Steven, 1968- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.
Subjects:
Avery, John, > active 1695.
Pirates > Great Britain > Biography.
Piracy > Economic aspects > Great Britain > History.
Piracy > Economic aspects > Mughal Empire > History.
International economic relations > History.
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 17th century.
Mughal Empire > Economic conditions > 17th century.
Mughal Empire > Foreign economic relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign economic relations > Mughal Empire.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origin stories
  • The uses of terror
  • The rise of the Mughals
  • Hostis Humani Generis
  • Two kinds of treasure
  • Spanish expedition shipping
  • The universe conquerer
  • Holding patterns
  • The drunken boatswain
  • The Fancy
  • The pirate verses
  • Does Sir Josiah sell or buy?
  • West wind drift
  • The Ganj-i-Sawai
  • The Amity returns
  • She fears not who follows her
  • The princess
  • The Fath Mahmamadi
  • Exceeding treasure
  • The counter narrative
  • Vengeance
  • A company at war
  • The getaway
  • Manifest rebellion
  • Supposition is not proof
  • The saltwater faujdar
  • Homecomings
  • A nation of pirates
  • The ghost trial
  • What is consent?
  • Finis
  • Epilogue: Libertalia.

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