ENEMIES OF ALL: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PIRATES (HB)

If you think of the word ‘pirate’, you most probably think of black flags and peg legs, cutlasses and cannon, walking the plank and buried treasure. But these stereotypes aren’t the whole truth. Or, perhaps, they were never true at all. This is a voyage of discovery that investigates piracy’s incredible, and often unrecognised, impact on history. Socially, economically and politically, pirates moulded European empires as they rose to global power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They shaped our modern world and left behind troubling legacies. You will never see pirates in the same way again.