Marcus Rediker

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Villains of Nations and their revolt against Labor Regime Marcus Rediker is an American professor of history, who explores the dramatic world of maritime adventures. In the novel Villains of Nations, his collection of essays tells a narrative of the ‘Golden Age’ of Atlantic piracy from the perspectives of commoners, slaves, indentured servants, pirates and other outlaws. He unwraps the reader in a detailed outlook on the subfield study of pirates and maritime piracy. Rediker resisted the grandeur of admirals, merchants and nation-states; and models the culture and historical background of maritime outlaws, with a special emphasis on the pirate life, and the allure to violence and terror on the ruling classes (especially the British), …show more content…
Though pirates were fighting for the rights of man, they were declared hostis humani generis (the common enemies of mankind). Also they were fighting against unjust labor laws and the usurping of the rights of the commoners and seamen. Piracy, was deemed a crime above all property and, therefore, against all property owners and law abiding citizens. Pirates were evil monsters, and should not be considered heroes according to Reverend Mather, and anyone who sympathized with them, were themselves outlaws.
The socioeconomic aspect of piracy was de rigueur until the peak of the golden age of piracy, roughly 1716 through 1726, the decade explored under the historical lens of Marcus Rediker. Regulating and enforcing this tenuous authority was a superhuman task, however, and pirates from these regions of the Atlantic demonstrated over time that they were indeed not enemies of all humankind; instead, they nearly always found friendly ports of call in which to trade their looted cargoes, spend their equitably divided shares, and debauch themselves in drunken
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