King Death of the Scurvy Rats finished reading Villains of All Nations by Marcus Rediker
Concise history of the Golden Age of Atlantic Piracy
Fits nicely into the niche. For books about other ages of piracy: - Pirate Utopias (Hakim Bey) - Corsairs of the 1600s, particularly in Sale (Morocco) and Algiers, with some information on Irish pirates of the same time - Pirate Enlightenment (David Graeber) - the "Pirate Kingdoms" of Madagascar and their relationships to the Malagasy - Rubicon (Tom Holland) - a history of the Roman Republic which also covers their death-struggle with ancient pirates