Tyranipocrit Discovered
Author: Andrew Hopton
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13:
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The Many-Headed Hydra
Author: Peter Linebaugh
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0807050156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the International Labor History Award 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 equality that would forever 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. When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization in the early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a vast, diverse, and landless workforce was born. These workers crossed national, ethnic, and racial boundaries, as they circulated around the Atlantic world on trade ships and slave ships, from England to Virginia, from Africa to Barbados, and from the Americas back to Europe. Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives in the Americas and Europe, the authors show how ordinary working people led dozens of rebellions on both sides of the North Atlantic. The rulers of the day called the multiethnic rebels a 'hydra' and brutally suppressed their risings, yet some of their ideas fueled the age of revolution. Others, hidden from history and recovered here, have much to teach us about our common humanity.
The Many-Headed Hydra
Author: Marcus Rediker
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 1789601940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong 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.
Liberty Against the Law
Author: Christopher Hill
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1788736826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of 17th century England In 17th Century England, the law was not an instrument of justice - it was an instrument of oppression. The enclosures of common land, loss of many traditional rights and draconian punishments for minor transgressions changed the lives of the peasantry and created a landless class of wage labourers. In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill explores the immense social changes that occurred and the expressions of liberty against the law through the literary culture of the times and the hero-worship of the outlaw. As well as chapters on gypsies and vagabonds, Hill analyses class, religion and the shift away from the importance of the church after the Reformation. Liberty Against the Law is a late classic of Hill's work, and essential reading for anyone interested in the history and politics of the 17th Century.
Puritanism and Revolution
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1349616680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illuminating collection of essays assesses the 17th century, interpreting what used to be called "The Puritan Revolution," the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relations between these ideas and the political events of the day.
Mary's Master
Author: P. Judge Leonard P. Judge
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1440188173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary's Master provides observations and interpretations of the English colonization of the area presently known as southern New England. This is a critical review of some of the English writings and quotes regarding those interactions that were contemporary to the time that the English were colonizing the area. The major event that defined this time was King Philip's War from 1675 through 1676 which resulted in the crushing defeat of the natives who lived in that part of New England. The primary story in Mary's Master centers upon the captivity of one of the English women during that war, Mary Rowlandson. Her narrative is considered to be the most widely read American captivity story ever written. The accounts of other English captives reveal behavior by the natives that shows humanity in great contrast with the savagery attributed to them by most contemporary writers. Mary Rowlandson's master is, Quanopin, a Narragansett sachem whom Mary admires despite all the anti-Indian rhetoric she has been exposed to by others. While their time together is brief, it is exceptional because she expresses an admiration for him not conveyed toward any other Indian, which was unusual for those times and still is today.
The British Civil War
Author: Trevor Royle
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 907
ISBN-13: 0312292937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe entirety of the British Civil War has never been covered in a single volume--until now. While it is usually seen as an English conflict, Royle paints the picture on a large canvas to show that it engulfed the entirety of Great Britain. While the war began as the result of the Scots' unwillingness to accept Charles I's prayer book, their obstinacy inspired the Irish Catholics to rise against their English and Scot oppressors with the result that fourteen years internecine fighting was to be the norm for these islands. This is grand narrative military history at its best and a monumental achievement.
Sociability and Cosmopolitanism
Author: David Burrow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1317321669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society.
Left Wing Democracy in the English Civil War - A Study of the Social Philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley
Author: David W. Petegorsky
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1447486633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in the 1930s, this book contains a comprehensive study of the social philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Contents include: The Background of the Civil War; The Development of Radical Political Thought During the Civil War; The Digger Movement; The Political and Social Philosophy of the Digger Movement; Winstanley's Utopia. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Conflict and Enlightenment
Author: Thomas Munck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0521878071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis novel study of political culture in Enlightenment Europe analyses print, public opinion and the transnational dissemination of texts.
