La hidra de la revolución

In this fast-paced story, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker offer us another interpretation of the formation of the modern world. In his vindication of 'history from below', the protagonists here are not the great States and their armies, the commercial companies or the bourgeois intelligence of early capitalism. On the contrary, these pages are populated by sailors, slaves, indigenous people, women and the poor who suffered and at the same time made this first capitalist globalization possible. Ignored characters and often forgotten struggles thus reveal the negative of the Atlantic expansion of the 17th and 18th centuries: from the revolts against the enclosure of the commons in England and Ireland to the Haitian Revolution and the American Revolution, passing through the desertions of the European indentured serfs, the rebellions of the African slaves, the experience of the maroons, the mestizo communities led by the Amerindian peoples, the sailors' mutinies, the outbreak of Atlantic piracy and all kinds of popular conspiracies in almost every region. Atlantic Ocean cities.