Enemy
of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global
Manhunt
by Steven Johnson
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The
New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns
with the story of a pirate who changed the world
Most
confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes,
sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match
that lights up the whole planet.
Henry Every was the seventeenth
century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly
inaccurate—reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered
enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven
Johnson argues that Every’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering
of a major shift in the global economy. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key
event—the attack on an Indian treasure ship by Every and his crew—and its
surprising repercussions across time and space. It’s the gripping tale one of the
most lucrative crimes in history, the first international manhunt, and the
trial of the seventeenth century.
Johnson uses the extraordinary
story of Henry Every and his crimes to explore the emergence of the East India
Company, the British Empire, and the modern global marketplace: a densely
interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations. How did this unlikely
pirate and his notorious crime end up playing a key role in the birth of
multinational capitalism? In the same mode as Johnson’s classic non-fiction
historical thriller The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind deftly traces the path
from a single struck match to a global conflagration.
Product
details
Hardcover : 304 pages
Publisher : Riverhead Books
(May 12, 2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0735211604
ISBN-13 : 978-0735211605
Product Dimensions : 6.2 x 1.1 x 9.3 inches
