Enemies of All Humankind

Acknowledgments • Introduction • PART 1: THE EMPEROR AND THE PIRATE: LEGITIMATE VIOLENCE AS A MODERN DILEMMA • Augustine of Hippo: The City of God • Charles Johnson: A General History of the Pyrates • Charles Ellms: The Pirates’ Own Book • PART 2: RACE, SPACE, AND THE FORMATION OF THE HOSTIS HUMANI GENERIS CONSTELLATION • Piratae and Praedones: The Racialization of Hostis Humani Generis • John Locke, William Blackstone, and the Invader in the State of Nature • Hostis Humani Generis and the American Historical Novel: James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer • PART 3: THE AMERICAN CIVILIZATION THESIS: INTERNALIZING THE OTHER • The Frontier Thesis as a Third Model of Civilization • The Democratic Frontiersman and the Totalitarian Leviathan • Free Agency and the Pure Woman Paradox • The Foundational Pirata in Richard Wright’s Native Son • PART 4: “IT IS UNDERNEATH US”: THE PLANETARY ZONE IN BETWEEN AS AN AMERICAN DILEMMA • The Institutional Frontier: A New Type of Criminal • Who Is Innocent? The Later Cold War Years • Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the War on Terror • Conclusion • Abbreviations • Notes • Works Cited • Index