The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary AtlanticBeacon Press, 03.09.2013 - 448 Seiten Winner of the International Labor History Award 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. 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. Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives in the Americas and 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' and brutally suppressed their risings, yet some of their ideas fueled the age of revolution. Others, hidden from history and recovered here, have much to teach us about our common humanity. |
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... rebellion that played out among the shipwrecked suggest the major themes of early Atlantic history. These events do not make for a story of English maritime greatness and glory, nor for a tale of the heroic struggle for religious ...
... rebellion that played out among the shipwrecked suggest the major themes of early Atlantic history. These events do not make for a story of English maritime greatness and glory, nor for a tale of the heroic struggle for religious ...
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... (through mining and the putting-out system), and unprecedented military mobilization resulted in the huge Tudor regional rebellions— the Cornish Rising (1497), the Lavenham Rising (1525), and the Lincolnshire l8 • THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA.
... (through mining and the putting-out system), and unprecedented military mobilization resulted in the huge Tudor regional rebellions— the Cornish Rising (1497), the Lavenham Rising (1525), and the Lincolnshire l8 • THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA.
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... Rebellion (1549), and Kerr's Rebellion (1549), all of which took place in the countryside. Urban insurrections for their part intensified toward the end of the sixteenth century with the Ludgate Prison Riot (1581), the Beggars ...
... Rebellion (1549), and Kerr's Rebellion (1549), all of which took place in the countryside. Urban insurrections for their part intensified toward the end of the sixteenth century with the Ludgate Prison Riot (1581), the Beggars ...
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... rebellion of the kind promoted on the island of Bermuda by the commoners of the Sea-Venture before they, too, were defeated." We have said that the meeting of Caliban and Trinculo under the gaberdine is the beginning of the motley crew ...
... rebellion of the kind promoted on the island of Bermuda by the commoners of the Sea-Venture before they, too, were defeated." We have said that the meeting of Caliban and Trinculo under the gaberdine is the beginning of the motley crew ...
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... rebellion that would be summarized by the anonymous author of The Rebel's Doom, a later-seventeenth-century history of uprisings in England. Early tumults in the realm, the writer claimed, had resulted almost entirely from the ...
... rebellion that would be summarized by the anonymous author of The Rebel's Doom, a later-seventeenth-century history of uprisings in England. Early tumults in the realm, the writer claimed, had resulted almost entirely from the ...
Inhalt
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A Blackymore Maide Named Francis | 71 |
The Divarication of the Putney Debares | 104 |
Hydrarchy Sailors Pirares and the Maritime State | 143 |
The Outcasrs of the Nations of the Earth | 174 |
A Morley Crew in the American Revolution | 211 |
The Conspiracy of Edward and Catherine Despard | 248 |
Robert Wedderburn and Arlantic Jubilee | 287 |
Tyger Tyger | 327 |
A Map of the Atlantic 1699 | 354 |
Notes | 355 |
Ackowledgments | 413 |
Index | 417 |
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