ePub Complete Book of Emigrants; 1700-1750 by Peter Wilson Coldham in History

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This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors; slaves; pirates; and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In Outlaws of the Atlantic; award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure; not from the perspective of admirals; merchants; and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners—sailors; slaves; indentured servants; pirates; and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together their seafaring experiences for the first time; Outlaws of the Atlantic is an unexpected and compelling peoples’ history of the “age of sail.” With his signature bottom-up approach and insight; Rediker reveals how the “motley”—that is; multiethnic—crews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates; enslaved Africans; and other outlaws worked together to subvert capitalism; and that; in the era of the tall ship; outlaws challenged authority from below deck.By bringing these marginal seafaring characters into the limelight; Rediker shows how maritime actors have shaped history that many have long regarded as national and landed. And by casting these rebels by sea as cosmopolitan workers of the world; he reminds us that to understand the rise of capitalism; globalization; and the formation of race and class; we must look to the sea. From the Hardcover edition.