The Many-Headed Hydra
Subtitle: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
By: Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker.
Contributors: Rediker, Marcus Buford.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- West Indies, British -- History; Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History; Slave trade -- West Indies, British -- History; Mutiny -- Great Britain -- History; Radicalism -- West Indies, British -- History; Radicalism -- United States -- History; Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Social conditions
Description: "Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-411) and index.