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The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. (Reviews of Books).

Albion,  March, 2002  by Connors, Richard

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Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press. 2000. Pp. 433. $30.00. ISBN 0-8070-5006-7.

"If you know your history, then you would know where you're coming from." Two decades after the death of the legendary musician Bob Marley, the haunting lyrics to one of his most famous ballads, Buffalo Soldier, still inspire many to think of the past, and of their own pasts. Many inhabitants of today's trans-Atlantic world would learn much about our collective pasts ...

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