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Winner of the International Labor History AwardLong before the American Revolution & the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, & indentured servants had ideas about freedom & 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.When an unprecedented expansion of trade & colonization in the early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a vast, diverse, & landless workforce was born. These workers crossed national, ethnic, & racial boundaries, as they circulated around the Atlantic world on trade ships & slave ships, from England to Virginia, from Africa to Barbados, & from the Americas back to Europe.Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives in the Americas & Europe, the authors show how ordinary working people led dozens of rebellions on both sides of the North Atlantic. The rulers of the day called the multiethnic rebels a ‘hydra’ & brutally suppressed their risings, yet some of their ideas fueled the age of revolution. Others, hidden from history & recovered

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Author

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807033173

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Political Science

Rating

4.11 / 5 (615 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14