Marcus Rediker has some interesting scholarship on pirates, and expanding it out a little into the result of mercantile capitalism creating a new proletariat Li

Marcus Rediker has some interesting scholarship on pirates, and expanding it out a little into the result of mercantile capitalism creating a new proletariat Linebaugh and Rediker's "Many Headed Hydra" is a good read: http://www.beacon.org/The-Many-Headed-Hydra-P1017.aspx http://www.beacon.org/The-Many-Headed-Hydra-P1017.aspx