Colin Woodard

Describes how a group of powerful pirate captains joined forces to create a powerful den of thieves, which led to a distinctive form of democracy in the Bahamas, one that ultimately was destroyed by a merchant fleet owner and former privateer.

Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man who Brought Them Down

The Republic of Pirates

Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.

A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

American Nations

The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in America's history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the civil rights movement to the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries of the nation's existence, from the first colonies through the Gilded Age and Great Depression to the present day, and how different regions of the country have successfully or disastrously accommodated them.

A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good

American Character

The author of American Nations returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge, for the first time, an American nationhood. It tells the dramatic tale of how the story of our national origins, identity, and purpose was intentionally created and fought over in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On one hand, a small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and novelists--fashioned and promoted a history that attempted to transcend and erase the fundamental differences and profound tensions between the nation's regional cultures. America had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government and was held together by fealty to these ideals. This emerging nationalist story was immediately and powerfully contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued that the United States was instead an ethno-state, the homeland of the allegedly superior "Anglo-Saxon" race, upon whom Divine and Darwinian favor shined. Their vision helped create a new federation--the Confederacy--prompting the bloody Civil War. While defeated on the battlefield, their vision later managed to win the war of ideas, capturing the White House in the early twentieth century, and achieving the first consensus, pan-regional vision of U.S. nationhood in the years before the outbreak of the first World War. This narrower, more exclusive vision of America would be overthrown in mid-century, but it was never fully vanquished. Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts and demons shaped the destiny of millions.

The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

Union

A history of coastal Maine's lobster communities describes their ongoing defense of local traditions against forces that would exploit their resources, their communal values, and the wisdom they have gleaned from lifetimes spent in collaboration with one another. Reprint.

Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier

The Lobster Coast

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

Capitães como Barba Negra, “Black Sam” Bellamy e Charles Vane uniram-se para criar, juntamente com seus companheiros piratas, a chamada “Gangue Voadora”, consolidando assim a República Pirata – uma bruta, distinta e breve democracia estabelecida nas Bahamas. Por lá, servos foram libertos, negros e escravos fugitivos podiam ser reconhecidos como cidadãos, e os governantes eram escolhidos mediante voto. Interrompendo rotas de comércio, saqueando navios negreiros e mantendo a Europa sem comunicação com o Novo Mundo, a República Pirata sacudiu as fundações do imperialismo e inspirou sentimentos de democracia que conduziriam à Revolução Americana. Os piratas tornaram-se heróis aos olhos do povo e, nesta obra, que inspirou a série Crossbones – com John Malkovich no papel de Barba Negra –, emerge sua história desconhecida, trazendo a República Pirata de volta à vida.

A verdadeira história dos Piratas do Caribe e do homem que os derrotou.

A República dos Piratas

Ésta es la historia real y documentada de los piratas del Caribe: una historia que se parece poco a la que nos ha contado Hollywood, pero que es mucho más atractiva y sorprendente aún. Este libro nos habla de una lucha contra la tiranía, de una revuelta marítima que puso en peligro los imperios de España, Francia e Inglaterra y paralizó el comercio naval en el Atlántico. En su centro había una república de piratas formada por unos cuantos millares de hombres y mujeres de todas las razas y religiones, en que los negros eran ciudadanos en igualdad de derechos con los blancos y los marineros elegían democráticamente a sus capitanes, tomaban las decisiones en común y se repartían equitativamente el botín. Fue un sueño de libertad que pareció anunciar los nuevos tiempos de las revoluciones democráticas, pero que acabó a sangre y fuego. Colin Woodard nos lo cuenta en un libro documentado y serio, más fascinante que la mejor novela de piratas.

La verdadera historia de los piratas del Caribe

La república de los piratas

By the bestselling author of American Nations, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and novelists--fashioned and promoted the idea of America as nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued that the United States was instead the homeland of the allegedly superior "Anglo-Saxon" race, upon whom divine and Darwinian favor shined. Colin Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts and demons shaped the destiny of millions.

The Black Sea is already dead. Because of sea-level rise, an entire nation in the South Pacific, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is being washed away. Throughout the Caribbean Sea, vast stretches of coral reef-called the "rainforests of the ocean" because of their diversity of life-are dying at increasingly rapid rates. The reefs along the entire north coast of Jamaica are dead. Ocean's End is not about the damage our oceans could suffer (and inflict) in ten or a hundred years, if we're not careful. It's an eyewitness account, in compelling and vivid detail, of the massive worldwide destruction that's already happened.

Travels Through Endangered Seas

Ocean's End

A saga chronicling 50 years of triumph and tragedy, "Unsettled" first appeared as a newspaper series on the front page of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram in the summer of 2014. The story – which unfolded for 29 straight days and concluded with an epilogue a week later – traces the recent history of Maine’s Passamaquoddy people and explains how past events continue to affect their lives today. Reporter Colin Woodard spent more than a year researching "Unsettled," logging thousands of miles and more than 250 hours of interviews with 70 sources, including past governors of Maine and the reservations. The result is a story that shocked many in Maine.

Unsettled

Kalózköztársaság

Discusses the state of the world's oceans, discussing the demise of fisheries, the deaths of coral reefs, the effects of sea-level rise, and the creation of dead zones from pollution

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