The Many-Headed Hydra
By Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
By Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
By Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
By Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Category: Domestic Politics | World Politics | World History
Category: Domestic Politics | World Politics | World History
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$29.95
Sep 03, 2013 | ISBN 9780807033173
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Sep 03, 2013 | ISBN 9780807050156
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Praise
For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already well acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be profoundly challenged. –David Montgomery, author of Citizen Worker
“A landmark in the development of an Atlantic perspective on early American history. Ranging from Europe to Africa to the Caribbean and North America, it makes us think in new ways about the role of working people in the making of the modern world.”–Eric Foner, author of The Story of American Freedom
“What would the world look like had the levelers, the diggers, the ranters, the slaves, the castaways, the Maroons, the Gypsies, the Indians, the Amazons, the Anabaptists, the pirates . . . won? Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker show us what could have been by exhuming the revolutionary dreams and rebellious actions of the first modern proletariat, whose stories~until now~were lost at sea. They have recovered a sunken treasure chest of history and historical possibility and spun these lost gems into a swashbuckling narrative full of labor, love, imagination, and startling beauty.” –Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional!
“The Many-Headed Hydra is about connections others have denied, ignored, or underemployed. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Europe, Africa, and the Americas came together to create a new economy and a new class of working people. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker tell their story with deep sympathy and profound insight. . . . A work of restoration and celebration of a world too long hidden from view.”–Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
“More than just a vivid illustration of the gains involved in thinking beyond the boundaries between nation-states. Here, in incendiary form, are essential elements for a people’s history of our dynamic, transcultural present.”–Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic
“This is a marvelous book. Linebaugh and Rediker have done an extraordinary job of research into buried episodes and forgotten writings to recapture, with eloquence and literary flair, the lost history of resistance to capitalist conquest on both sides of the Atlantic.”–Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
Table Of Contents
Introduction 1
1 The Wreck of the Sea-Venture 8
2 Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water 36
3 “A Blackymore Maide Named Francis” 71
4 The Divarication of the Putney Debates 104
5 Hydrarchy: Sailors, Pirates, and the Maritime State 143
6 “The Outcasts of the Nations of the Earth” 174
7 A Motley Crew in the American Revolution 211
8 The Conspiracy of Edward and Catherine Despard 248
9 Robert Wedderburn and Atlantic Jubilee 287
Conclusion Tyger! Tyger! 327
A Map of the Atlantic 1699 354
Notes 355
Acknowledgments 413
Index 417
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