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Author(s): Amedeo Policante
ISBN(s): 9781138797314, 1138797316
Edition: 1
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1138797316 
ISBN 13: 9781138797314
Author: Amedeo Policante

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’. It materializes on the most provincial cinematic screen and the most acclaimed works of fiction. It casts its shadow over the liquid spatiality of the Net, where cyber-activists, file-sharers and a large part of the global youth are condemned as pirates, often embracing that definition with pride rather than resentment. 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.

The Pirate Myth Genealogies of an Imperial Concept 1st Table of contents:

PART I Pirate figures (1400–1800)
1. Persecutio piratarum: Pirate outlaws and the Roman Empire
A Mediterranean imperium
The pirate as hostis communis omnium
Persecutio piratarum and the forms of Imperial peace
2. The Christian Commonwealth: Pirates, heretics and inquisitors
Imperium Christianus: Spanish Universalism and the conquest of America
Christianitas afflicta: The Atlantic wars of religion
Corsarios luteranos: Pirates and heresy
3. Zones of plunder: Piracy and primitive accumulation
Beyond the line: Imperialism and the state of exception
Plunder as primitive accumulation
‘Corsairs-capitalists’ and outlaw buccaneers
4. Enemies of all nations: Piracy and the world-market
Freedoms of the sea: From global plunder to the world-market
Making the world safe for property: The pirate as hostis communis omnium
The golden age of piracy
Intermezzo: The romance of piracy
PART II Pirate spectres (1800–2012)
5. The empire of free trade: Liberal Universalism and the pirate states
World-market and global shipping: British imperium in the nineteenth century
The pirate as hostis humani generis: Uses and abuses of an Imperial concept
Imperial powers and pirate states in the colonial world
6. Pirate spectres: Rightless outlaws in the age of total war
World War I: The colonial persecutio piratarum returns to Europe
Between war and peace: Germany as a pirate state
After the war: Schmitt ‘the pirate’ and the origins of international criminal law
7. Terrorists and pirates: Global police and humanitas afflicta
Globalization and the ‘humanitarian exception’: The return of Empire?
The War on Terror: A contemporary persecutio piratarum?
Security, commons and Somali pirates: Towards a global biopower?

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