false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg 189572 5 Globalism is nothing new, argue leftist historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. Centuries ago, European trade concerns, such as the Dutch East Indies Company and the Virginia Company, sought to create an overseas empire owned by corporations, not governments. Backed by governments all the same, these companies found themselves opposed only by a congeries of revolutionary sailors, artisans, farmers, and smallholders, who formed a "many-headed hydra" of resistance.<p> Arguing that this history of resistance to globalism has been unjustly overlooked, Linebaugh and Rediker delineate key episodes. When, for instance, a group of English sailors and common laborers were shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda en route to America, they created their own communal government, which was so pleasant to them that they refused to be "rescued" and had to be removed to the colonies by force. Their ideological descendants later banded with runaway slaves and other discontents to form multi-ethnic, multilingual pirate navies that hindered the transatlantic traffic in metals, jewels, and captive humans. Some of the men and women involved in these pirate bands, this "Atlantic proletariat," put their skills at the service of the American Revolution, which, in the author's view, "ended in reaction as the Founding Fathers used race, nation, and citizenship to discipline, divide, and exclude the very sailors and slaves who had initiated and propelled the revolutionary movement." The fire of rebellion soon spread all the same, they note, to such places as Haiti, Ireland, France, even England, helped along by these peripatetic and unsung rebels.<p> Linebaugh and Rediker's book is provocative and often brilliant, opening windows onto little-known episodes in world history. <I>--Gregory McNamee</I> 183270 2000 The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic total:107|5:45|4:34|3:18|2:9|1:1| 107 434 173 19 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 5 0 false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 01:48:28 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 01:49:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 5 0 false Wed Oct 21 22:41:07 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 22:48:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2112309 1859847986 9781859847985 7 3 4.06 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2112309.The_Many_headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 5 0 false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 23 18:19:07 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 16 08:01:34 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 5 0 false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 15:09:32 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 22:55:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 4 0 false Thu Aug 06 06:21:02 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 06:42:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 1 0 false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 02 12:31:24 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 11 10:42:09 -0700 2008
Ugh. Gave up after < 3 chapters. Typical "labor history" Simplistic cheerleading over 300 year old politics instead of insight.

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I especially liked how this book brought up the ...more...]]> 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 4 0 false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Aug 14 08:58:39 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 07:01:54 -0700 2007 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 5 0 false Fri Nov 07 00:29:11 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 00:32:07 -0800 2008 People always use to cooperate and help each other and spread revolutionary ideas, against all odds, during the harshtime of slavery.
Finally translated this year in French. ]]> 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 2 0 false Wed May 02 07:39:41 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 18 07:40:48 -0700 2008 I think his argument about the "many headed hydra" is a little artificial and over-reaching, but i appreciate it because he tries, and it's kinda thought-provoking. ]]> 2112309 1859847986 9781859847985 7 3 4.06 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2112309.The_Many_headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 5 0 false Tue Jan 08 08:45:29 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 08:50:06 -0800 2008 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 4 0 false Thu Feb 21 20:15:33 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 15:49:32 -0700 2008 2112309 1859847986 9781859847985 7 3 4.06 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2112309.The_Many_headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 4 0 false Fri Mar 28 10:52:47 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 10:53:53 -0700 2008 189572 0807050075 9780807050071 89 15 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172549589m/189572.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189572.The_Many_Headed_Hydra_The_Hidden_History_of_the_Revolutionary_Atlantic 0 0 false Mon Dec 14 10:29:45 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 10:29:45 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=189572