The Many Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh
Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
A sweeping Atlantic history of the plebeian networks—sailors, slaves, indentured laborers, artisans, pirates, and indigenous peoples—who forged forms of commoning and resistance against enclosures, wage labor, and state power in the 17th–18th centuries. Using legal records, ballads, trial transcripts and maritime sources, it traces how mutinies, maroon communities, pirate solidarities and popular uprisings across European ports, the Caribbean and the Americas created alternative economies and political imaginaries that challenged the emerging capitalist order.
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- 2000
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- American
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- English
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