page_title: Hydrarchy
hierarchical_section_title: Hydrarchy
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraving about the second labour of Heracles: slay the Lernaean Hydra Español: Grabado sobre el segundo trabajo de Heracles: matar a la Hidra de Lerna
context_page_description: Hydrarchy, is the organizational structure of a ship, or the ability for individual to gain power over land by ruling through the instrument of water, as defined by English poet Richard Braithwaite, who coined the term.
  The term is most commonly used to describe a maritime society or maritime history in the Atlantic world, concerning political, economic, and social tensions on the docks and ports and out at sea, between the mid sixteenth-century extending to the nineteenth.The term also attests to the resistant and rebellious sailors, slaves and other oppressed individuals who acted out against the "land" powers of the central imperial government, like England between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
context_section_description: Hydrarchy, is the organizational structure of a ship, or the ability for individual(s) to gain power over land by ruling through the instrument of water, as defined by English poet Richard Braithwaite (1588-1673), who coined the term.
  The term is most commonly used to describe a maritime society or maritime history in the Atlantic world, concerning political, economic, and social tensions on the docks and ports and out at sea, between the mid sixteenth-century extending to the nineteenth.The term also attests to the resistant and rebellious sailors, slaves and other oppressed individuals who acted out against the "land" powers of the central imperial government, like England between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
caption: Engraving by Gilles Rousselet (17th century) Hercules slaying the many-headed Lernaean Hydra
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