The Many-Headed Hydra

The Many-Headed Hydra Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

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Publisher's Synopsis

Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would for ever 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.

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Verso

Verso

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

Book information

ISBN: 9781844678655
Publisher: Verso
Imprint: Verso
Pub date:
Edition: Revised edition
DEWEY: 909.0971241
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xiii, 433
Weight: 360g
Height: 173mm
Width: 198mm
Spine width: 32mm