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The pirate myth : genealogies of an imperial concept
Yazar:
Policante, Amedeo, author.
ISBN:
9781138797314

9781315757223
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xxi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Seri:
Law and the postcolonial: ethics, politics, & economy
Genel Not:
"A GlassHouse book."
İçerik:
Persecutio piratarum : pirate outlaws and the Roman Empire -- The Christian commonwealth : pirates, heretics and inquisitors -- Zones of plunder : piracy and primitive accumulation -- Enemies of all nations : piracy and the world-market -- Intermezzo : the romance of piracy -- The empire of free trade : liberal universalism and the pirate states -- Pirate spectres : rightless outlaws in the age of total war -- Terrorists and pirates : global police and humanitas afflicta.
Özet:
"The image of the pirate today haunts the imagination of statesmen, diplomats and international legal scholars as an unlikely global security threat endangering the regularity of oceanic trade networks and legitimizing an unprecedented naval coalition that includes all major international powers. The image of the pirate also casts its shadow over the internet, as cyber-activists, file-sharers and others are condemned for piracy even if that definition is also embraced by some according to the fantasy of a freedom beyond the rigid norms of the state and of the market. But what are the origins of the 'pirate myth' in the Western political imagination? Drawing on history, international law, literature and politics, this book offers an original genealogy of this myth. From the persecutio piratarum that inaugurates the Imperial phase of Roman history to the contemporary global mobilization against Somali pirates, its close reading of the ways in which different Empires have made use of the 'pirate myth' in order to legitimize their hegemonic violence sheds light on the logic of past and present Imperial formations. More specifically, this book shows that the history of piracy the ways in which pirates have been used, outlawed, criminalized, condemned and suppressed by European powers has been, and continues to be, a fundamental element in the formation of the world market.The Pirate Myth: Genealogies of an Imperial Concept will therefore be immense interest to those working and researching in law, politics, and history"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kitap EKOBKN0007651 364.164 POL 2015
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