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Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition - English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition - English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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A great . . . very interesting book. -Johnny Depp Burg puts
historians to shame by raising extremely interesting questions that
no one before had asked. -Christopher Hill in New York Review of
Books Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled
characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have
been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even
a world-famous amusement park ride. In Sodomy and the Pirate
Tradition, historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual
world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men
engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men,
often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual
fulfillment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other
all- male institutions such as prisons, for it existed not within a
regimented structure of rule, regulations, and oppressive
supervision, but instead operated in a society in which widespread
toleration of homosexuality was the norm and conditions encouraged
its practice. In his new introduction, Burg discusses the initial
response to the book when it was published in 1983 and how our
perspectives on all-male societies have since changed. B. R. Burg
is professor of history at Arizona State University, Tempe.
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