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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The most successful pirate in history never sailed the Caribbean.She was a Chinese woman named Ching Shih who rose from a floating brothel to command over seventy thousand pirates-more than most national navies of her era. She defeated the Chinese, Portuguese, and British fleets, negotiated her own amnesty, and retired to run a gambling house. She died wealthy, free, and old.You have probably never heard of her. That is the problem with pirate history.Salt & Blood tears down the Hollywood myths and rebuilds the story of piracy from the waterline up. This is the complete global history-from Bronze Age 'Sea Peoples' who collapsed entire civilizations, to Somali fishermen who discovered that hostages paid better than tuna.What you will discover:Pirates operated some of the most democratic societies of their age. They wrote constitutions before America existed. They elected their captains and voted them out for cowardice or cruelty. They shared plunder equally and created disability compensation systems that would not appear in mainstream society for centuries. Black crew members voted alongside white ones-documented in trial records from an era when such equality existed nowhere else.The Barbary corsairs of North Africa enslaved over one million Europeans across three centuries. Their raiding parties reached as far as Iceland and Ireland, emptying entire coastal villages. The young United States built its navy specifically to fight them.Viking pirates founded Russia, served as the Byzantine emperors' personal bodyguards, and reached North America five centuries before Columbus. They navigated Russian rivers to trade-and raid-as far as Baghdad.The 'Golden Age' of Caribbean piracy that dominates popular imagination lasted barely a decade. By contrast, piracy in the South China Sea has continued essentially unbroken for over two thousand years.What you will not find:Recycled tales about Blackbeard. Romanticized adventure that ignores the violence. Walking the plank, which probably never happened.Drawing on trial transcripts, ship logs, archaeological discoveries, and contemporary accounts, Salt & Blood reconstructs piracy as it actually was-brutal, strategic, surprisingly progressive in some ways, and absolutely relentless. The violence was real. The democratic experiments were real. The surprising sophistication was real.For three thousand years, wherever ships have carried wealth across water, someone has figured out how to take it by force. This book tells their story-all of it, from every ocean, across every era.They called it the 'sweet trade.' It was anything but.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The oldest weapon in the human arsenal is not the spear or the sword - it is information.Thousands of years before the first modern intelligence agency opened its doors, the pharaohs were sending scouts into the Sinai, Assyrian kings were reading intercepted letters from vassal states, and Chinese strategists were writing manuals on how to recruit, run, and protect spies. Espionage did not arrive with the modern state. It was already there when the first states were being built.This book traces the history of intelligence gathering from prehistory through the fall of the ancient world, across more than thirty civilisations on six continents. Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, Rome, China, India, Japan, Byzantium, the Mongol Empire, the Islamic caliphates, the Aztecs, the Inca, the nomads of the Eurasian steppe, the Celtic and Germanic tribes - all of them developed systems of spies, informants, and covert operations, most of them independently of one another.Some of the stories are well known. Sun Tzu's chapter on spies. The Trojan Horse. Julius Caesar's scouts. But many are not. The Scythians sent the Persian emperor Darius a message consisting of a bird, a mouse, a frog, and five arrows - he misread it, and it nearly cost him his army. The Inca ran a relay network that could carry messages faster than the Mongol postal system, without a single written word. Hasan-i Sabbah took an impregnable mountain fortress by spending months converting its garrison from the inside, until the governor simply walked out. Genghis Khan sent spies disguised as merchants into the Khwarazmian Empire years before he invaded - and scholars still debate whether he deliberately provoked the war once he knew he would win it.The pattern that emerges is striking. Civilisations that had no contact with each other arrived at the same solutions: the same types of agents, the same methods of deception, the same problems of trusting the people you send to lie on your behalf. That pattern suggests something important about what espionage actually is - not a cultural invention, but something closer to a structural requirement of any society complex enough to have enemies.…