The Many-Headed Hydra
The Many-Headed Hydra
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A fascinating investigation into the stories of the forgotten revolutionaries of the Atlantic.
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The Many-Headed Hydra by Marcus Rediker
Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would for ever change history. The Many-Headed Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world.
A landmark in the development of an Atlantic perspective on early American historyRanging 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
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
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
The Many-Headed Hydra is a wonderful book. Its passion and commitment encourages its readers to think associatively, to make progressive connections -- Sukhdev Sandhu * Guardian *
Scum of the maritime sort had their spell in the limelight with The Many-Headed Hydra. This compellting history of the 'revolutionary Atlantic' portrays pirates, sailors, dockers, sea-going whores and other dregs of the ocean and coast as briny rebels who resisted the global commercial order and even disrupted the slave trade for decades. * Independent *
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, militantly libertarian academics, have written, in what they call this 'black book of capitalism', an account of trans-Atlantic social change since the seventeenth century, from the viewpoint of the underdog ... The authors' egalitarian bias may stimulate as much accumulation as Das Kapital. * Irish Times *
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
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
The Many-Headed Hydra is a wonderful book. Its passion and commitment encourages its readers to think associatively, to make progressive connections -- Sukhdev Sandhu * Guardian *
Scum of the maritime sort had their spell in the limelight with The Many-Headed Hydra. This compellting history of the 'revolutionary Atlantic' portrays pirates, sailors, dockers, sea-going whores and other dregs of the ocean and coast as briny rebels who resisted the global commercial order and even disrupted the slave trade for decades. * Independent *
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, militantly libertarian academics, have written, in what they call this 'black book of capitalism', an account of trans-Atlantic social change since the seventeenth century, from the viewpoint of the underdog ... The authors' egalitarian bias may stimulate as much accumulation as Das Kapital. * Irish Times *
Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the University of Toledo. He writes extensively on British history, Irish history, labor history and the history of the colonial Atlantic. His books include The Magna Carta Manifesto, The Many-Headed Hydra and The London Hanged, and he contributes frequently to CounterPunch.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844678655 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844678652 |
| Title | The Many-Headed Hydra |
| Author | Marcus Rediker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2012-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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