- Published: 14 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781802061567
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- RRP: $30.00
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia











- Published: 14 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781802061567
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- RRP: $30.00
PRAISE FOR THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING: Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read.
David Priestland, The Guardian
Pacey and potentially revolutionary ... This is more than an argument about the past, it is about the human condition in the present.
Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
Blazing with iconoclastic rebuttals to conventional wisdom. Full of fresh thinking, it's a pleasure to read and offers a bracing challenge on every page.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, BBC History
This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything.
Amitav Ghosh
A genius... blazingly original, stunningly wide-ranging, impossibly well read.
The Atlantic
A thinker who revolutionises the way we see the world and helps us reimagine the things we once took for granted.
New Statesman
Chatty, punky, anti-everything catnip... it is good fun. It's about pirates, after all.
Sunday Times
Open and imaginative... Graeber is writing in a hybrid genre of poetic history, in this sense, but he is also reminding us why such hybridisation is good for us.
New Statesman
Engaging ... the chief pleasure of Graeber's writing is not that one always agrees with his arguments about the past. It is rather that, through a series of provocative thought experiments, he repeatedly forces us to reconsider our own ways of living in the present. Whatever happened in 18th-century Madagascar, Pirate Enlightenment implies, we could surely all do with a bit more free-thinking and egalitarianism in our own social, sexual and political arrangements.
Fara Dabhoiwala, The Guardian
Feisty, heroic ... a highly original thinker and a wonderful writer.
Peter Frankopan, New York Times