Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700 - 1750

by Marcus Rediker

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seamen's experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis of free wage labor, and the growth of an international working class. These epic themes were intimately bound up with the everyday hopes and fears of the common men who toiled upon the deep.

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plaugher 16 reviews

A highly informative, intriguing, scholarly social history dealing with early eighteenth century merchant shipping and the motley cast of characters that frequented every ship.

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Opens up an area of history that examines the way that the sea and workers on it have influenced history, and political thought.

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Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collge d'tudes mondiales in Paris. His books include The Many-Headed Hydra, Villains of All Nations, The Slave Ship, The Amistad Rebellion, and Outlaws of the Atlantic. Rediker is also the producer of the prize-winning show more documentary film Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (Tony Buba, director). He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. show less

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