** 0. Introduction

** 1. Background

*** 1.1. Privateers, Buccaneers, Pirates: Maters of Terminology

*** 1.2. What “Golden Age?” A Little History

** 2. “Enemy of His Own Civilization” An Ethnography of Golden Age Piracy

*** 2.1. “From the Sea”: Maritime Nomads

*** 2.2. “Smooth” vs. “Striated”: The Question of Space

*** 2.3. Pirate Captains and Indian Chiefs: Remembering Pierre Clastres

*** 2.4. Potlatches, Zero-Production, and Parasitism: Pirate Economy

**** Pirate Economy as “Primitive” Economy

**** Pirate Economy as “Criminal” Economy

*** 2.5. No State, No Accumulation, No History: Pirates as “Primitives”?

*** 2.6. “Cultural Contact”: Pirates and the Non-European People of the Caribbean

** 3. “Social Origins,” or The European Legacy Golden Age Piracy and Cultural Studies

*** 3.1. Fashion, Food, Fun, Lingo: Circumscribing the Pirate Subculture

**** Food/Drink

**** Entertainment

**** Language

*** 3.2. “Villains of all Nations?”: Piracy and (Trans)Nationality

*** 3.3. Satanists and Sabbatarians: Piracy and Religion

*** 3.4. A Colorful Atlantic? Piracy and Race

*** 3.5. Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and a Co-opted Myth: Piracy and Gender

*** 3.6. On Sodomites and Prostitutes: Piracy and Sexuality

*** 3.7. Escaping Discipline and “Biopolitics”: The Pirate Body

*** 3.8. Eye Patches, Hook Hands, and Wooden Legs: Piracy and Disability

** 4. “Ni dieu, ni maître” Golden Age Piracy and Politics

*** 4.1. From “Brethren of the Coast” to a “Commonwealth of Outlaws”: Pirate Organization

*** 4.2. Flying the Black Flag: The Jolly Roger

*** 4.3. Is This Anarchy? Matters of Definition i

*** 4.4. The War Machine: Reading Piracy with Deleuze and Guatari

*** 4.5. Tactics: Pirates and Guerrilla Warfare

**** Basics

**** Shooting

**** Arms

**** Supplies

**** Expropriation

**** Traps

**** Speed

**** Surprise

**** “Smooth Space”

**** Terrain

**** Mobility

**** Organization

**** Initiative

*** 4.6. Revolutionary, Radical, and Proletarian Pirates? Matters of Definition ii

*** 4.7. Pirates as Social Bandits: Homage to E. J. Hobsbawm

**** The Framework

**** Three types of bandits

*** 4.8. Libertalia: Another Reading

*** 4.9. Safe Havens, Onshore Setlements, Pirate Utopias: Pirates on Land

**** Caribbean

**** Hispaniola

**** Tortuga

**** Petit-Gôave

**** Port Royal

**** Bay of Campeche/Bay of Honduras

**** New Providence

**** Madagascar

**** West Afica

*** 4.10. “Piratical Imperialism,” Hypocrisy, and the Merchants’ Wrath: Piracy and Capitalism

*** 4.11. Victims of Circumstance or Bloodthirsty Sadists? Piracy and Violence

*** 4.12. Vengeance as Justice: Pirate Ethics

*** 4.13. Dionysus in the West Indies: A Nietzschean Look at Golden Age Piracy

**** Affirmation

**** Liberty

**** Defiance

**** Self-Determination

**** Merit

**** Festival

**** Chance

**** Flux

**** Fear

**** Death

**** Destruction

**** Intoxication

** 5. Conclusion: The Golden Age Pirates’ Political Legacy

** 6. Notes on Pirate Literature

** 7. Bibliography