Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, 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.
Author Biography
Peter Linebaugh, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toledo, is author of The London Hanged, also published by Verso. Marcus Rediker, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, is author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and contributing author of Who Built America?
