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The Age of Enlightenment, by David Benever

David Frum has written a new book called Pirate Enlightenment. The subtitle is Democracy Emerges in the Spaces in-between, he says. It's about what happened along a 400-ish mile stretch of coastland along the east coast of Madagascar in the 18th, early 18th century. He argues that democratic experiments going on pirate ships fired the imagination of writers in Europe.

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