Enemy of All Mankind : A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt - Steven Johnson

Enemy of All Mankind

A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

By: Steven Johnson

Paperback | 3 August 2021 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $27.99

$26.50

or 4 interest-free payments of $6.63 with

Aims to ship in 25 to 30 business days

"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."

"Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags." -The Wall Street Journal

From TheNew York Times-bestselling author ofThe Ghost MapandExtra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world

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 of 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 nonfiction historical thriller The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind deftly traces the path from a single struck match to a global conflagration.

More in Geopolitics

Patriot - Alexei Navalny

Hardcover

$52.75

Subimperial Power : Australia in the International Arena - Clinton Fernandes
How the World Works - Noam Chomsky

RRP $29.99

$27.90

A Sense of Balance - John Howard

RRP $32.99

$30.25

Who Rules the World? - Noam Chomsky

RRP $24.99

$23.75

True Believer : James Reece: Book 2 - Jack Carr

RRP $24.99

$23.75

The New Map : Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations - Daniel Yergin
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping - Steve Tsang

RRP $56.95

$40.40

29%
OFF