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.
0 有用 费德里科维奇 2023-10-05 08:11:18 美国
跨度极广的亚特兰大海洋史,虽然将奴隶社会的讨论至于中间地位,但跨度从英国莎士比亚时期的社会形成和宗教运动一直到美国大革命,讨论了包括船只的建造与海盗横行的海域的有些过度浪漫化的航海史。将一种始终在变化中的,象征着动乱和革新的力量比作九头蛇,而代表稳定与不变的秩序比作是大力士海克力斯。屠戮怪物的同时海克力斯发现了斩不尽的头颅,也成为了在暴风雨中持续目睹混乱的见证者。亚特兰大是成功与失败都持续不断的人... 跨度极广的亚特兰大海洋史,虽然将奴隶社会的讨论至于中间地位,但跨度从英国莎士比亚时期的社会形成和宗教运动一直到美国大革命,讨论了包括船只的建造与海盗横行的海域的有些过度浪漫化的航海史。将一种始终在变化中的,象征着动乱和革新的力量比作九头蛇,而代表稳定与不变的秩序比作是大力士海克力斯。屠戮怪物的同时海克力斯发现了斩不尽的头颅,也成为了在暴风雨中持续目睹混乱的见证者。亚特兰大是成功与失败都持续不断的人类史。 (展开)
0 有用 费德里科维奇 2023-10-05 08:11:18 美国
跨度极广的亚特兰大海洋史,虽然将奴隶社会的讨论至于中间地位,但跨度从英国莎士比亚时期的社会形成和宗教运动一直到美国大革命,讨论了包括船只的建造与海盗横行的海域的有些过度浪漫化的航海史。将一种始终在变化中的,象征着动乱和革新的力量比作九头蛇,而代表稳定与不变的秩序比作是大力士海克力斯。屠戮怪物的同时海克力斯发现了斩不尽的头颅,也成为了在暴风雨中持续目睹混乱的见证者。亚特兰大是成功与失败都持续不断的人... 跨度极广的亚特兰大海洋史,虽然将奴隶社会的讨论至于中间地位,但跨度从英国莎士比亚时期的社会形成和宗教运动一直到美国大革命,讨论了包括船只的建造与海盗横行的海域的有些过度浪漫化的航海史。将一种始终在变化中的,象征着动乱和革新的力量比作九头蛇,而代表稳定与不变的秩序比作是大力士海克力斯。屠戮怪物的同时海克力斯发现了斩不尽的头颅,也成为了在暴风雨中持续目睹混乱的见证者。亚特兰大是成功与失败都持续不断的人类史。 (展开)