Someone recommended, in voice chat, a history book on pirates from a Marxist perspective, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Markus Rediker. It looks pretty cool but I haven’t read it

https://www.marcusrediker.com/books/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea.php#allbooks

The book's focus on maritime experience illuminates the broader historical sweep of the rise of capitalism and the growth of an international working class - epic themes which were intimately bound up with everyday lives of seafaring men.