Peter Linebaugh Books
The Many-Headed Hydra
"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...
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The Many-Headed Hydra
By Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker
Winner of the International Labor History AwardLong before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and i...
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The incomplete true authentic and wonderful history of May Day
"May 1st is a day that once made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypolea magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. This books reflections o...
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Albion's Fatal Tree
By Douglas Hay
In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artist...
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The London Hanged
Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply...
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