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<p>"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 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.<br> <br> When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization in the early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a vast, diverse, and landless workforce was born. These workers crossed national, ethnic, and racial boundaries, as they circulated around the Atlantic world on trade ships and slave ships, from England to Virginia, from Africa to Barbados, and from the Americas back to Europe.<br> <br> Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives in the Americas and Europe, the author

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Author

Peter Linebaugh; Marcus Buford Rediker; Ebrary, Inc

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807050156

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Political Science

Rating

4.11 / 5 (615 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14