Marcus Rediker is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Slave Ship: A Human History. Cassandra Pybus is Research Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Question for Liberty. Emma Christopher is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargos, 1730-1807.
27 Ebooks by Marcus Rediker
Cassandra Pybus & Marcus Rediker: Many Middle Passages
This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the …
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€38.99
Titas Chakraborty & Matthias van Rossum: A Global History of Runaways
During global capitalism’s long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters …
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€38.99
Matthew Christopher Hulbert & John C. Inscoe: Writing History with Lightning
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelib …
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€21.99
Marcus Rediker: The Amistad Rebellion
On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner
La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human cargo. After four days at sea, on a moonless night, the captive Africans that …
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€28.99
Marcus Rediker: Outlaws of the Atlantic
Outlaws of the Atlantic turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of seafaring adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants and other builders of empire, but …
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€24.99
Jeffries Fiona Jeffries: Nothing to Lose but Our Fear
Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If it’s not the war on terror, it’s the new war on the middle class. Crisis is the …
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€20.08
Marcus Rediker: The Fearless Benjamin Lay
The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation …
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€21.99
Steven G. Reinhardt: Currents in Transatlantic History
Transatlantic historians are dedicated to analyzing the dynamic process of encounter, interchange, and creolization that was initiated when peoples on different sides of the Atlantic Basin first made …
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€14.95
Jeffries Fiona Jeffries: Nothing to Lose but Our Fear
Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If it’s not the war on terror, it’s the new war on the middle class. Crisis is the …
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€20.28
Selma James: Sex, Race, and Class—The Perspective of Winning
In 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and their struggles …
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€10.99
Selma James: Sex, Race and Class – The Perspective of Winning
This selection, spanning six decades, traces the development of a new political perspective that would set out to redefine traditional views of the class struggle. James’ starting point was the …
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€12.41
Matthew Christopher Hulbert & John C. Inscoe: Writing History with Lightning
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing …
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€24.78
Marcus Rediker: Barco de esclavos
El prestigioso historiador Marcus Rediker arroja luz sobre los rincones más oscuros de los barcos esclavistas británicos y estadounidenses del siglo XVIII, instrumento imprescindible de la mayor …
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€9.99
David Killingray & Margarette Lincoln: Maritime Empires
Britain’s empire was sustained by shipping. These studies are concerned with a range of enterprises, both home and colonial, in which shipping was involved, relating to goods, people, ideas.
Brit …
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€32.99
Marcus Rediker & Peter Linebaugh: The Many-Headed Hydra
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 …
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€21.99
Marcus Rediker: Villains of All Nations
Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow.
Villains of all Nations unearths the thrilling historical truth behind such …
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€26.99
Marcus Rediker & Naomi Wallace: The Return of Benjamin Lay
In your hearts you know the truth: I was here among you three hundred years ago . . . Had you chosen differently then – before slavery and greed breathed their venom so deeply into our souls – we …
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€12.48
David Lester & Marcus Rediker: Under the Banner of King Death
Under the Banner of King Death is a tale of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution, bringing to life an itinerant community of outsiders behind today’s legends. This graphic novel breaks new …
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€21.99
