Pirate Utopias
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Pirate Utopias
| Full title | Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes |
|---|---|
| Author | Peter Lamborn Wilson |
| Published | 1995 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Wilson on the corsair republics of Salé and the European sailors who defected to them — stateless port societies treated as deliberate experiments rather than as crime. |
Where I heard about it
- The replies to @typesfast — named in the thread asking “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025); the full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Institutions — What a corsair republic was, structurally.
- Governance — The book’s real interest: self-organising port societies.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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