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The Many-Headed Hydra / Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker

The contemporary American experience of the study of history peers into the nineteenth century through the frenetic corridor of the twentieth century, with all its technological advancement and monumental decisions made at exponentially increasing rates. The nineteenth century, with its revolutions and rhetoric, was enacted upon the conflicts of the seventeenth century, as this book carefully illustrates. Lands enjoyed in common around the Atlantic were enclosed by the emerging post-feudal propertied class while humans abducted into chattel ownership became slave trade. Pirate mutinies, slave uprisings, soldier desertions and Caribbean maroon resistance characterized the roots of English and American revolutions. Linebaugh and Rediker discover in their extensive research the true causes of Cromwell's England and Jefferson's America were not with the landed gentry but with those who served them and accumulated the wealth claimed by the aristocracy. Their will was met with resistance by the likes of Olauduah Equiano, the freed slave, "Black Bart" Bartholomew Roberts and his motley crew of self-organized sailors among so many little-known Levelers and roots-religious Antinomians of the unsettled Atlantic. From Barbados to Bristol, Gambia to Virginia and Boston back to London, we see a class of people conspicuously missing from a classroom telling of Atlantic history. This is a well-written book that shows the years between Columbus and Lincoln in a revolutionary class perspective.

There are things I loathe about myself that bother me in Josef K. I was perplexed, until the end when I felt cheated.

Germany, Italy and Denmark in the mid-80s. Squats and community centers, fighting the 'authorities' in the streets, fighting the fascists during a fierce wave of neo-nationalism. This book is hot.

Berlin at the end of the 60's. The June 2 Movement was autonomously organized--no leaders, just action. Using the skills of the underclass (crime) to secure funding and their renegade popularity to stay in hiding, these "illegalists" fought for keeps against capitalism. Banned and suppressed by German authorities for decades, this book is written in Baumann's candid narrative style. This book is fun to read.

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