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 [...]

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[...]

For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all possible. In "The Slave Ship, " award-winning historian[...]

Outlaws of the Atlantic turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of seafaring adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and other builders of empire, but rather from the point-of-view of common people whose labors made that world possible - sailors, slaves, [...]

"An extremely important and well written book" Times Literary Supplement "More than just a vivid illustration of the gains involved in thinking beyond the boundaries between nation-states. Here, in incendiary form, are essential elements for a people's history of our dynamic, transcultural present."[...]

I mer än 300 år seglade slavskeppet över Atlanten, innan det förbjöds av England ochUSA för 200 år sedan.Slaveriet på den amerikanska kontinenten är väl utforskat men lite har skrivits om själva skeppet som var dess förutsättning. I Marcus Redikers nya bok Slavskeppet står emellertid j[...]

Den 28 juni 1839 lägger slavskeppet La Amistad ut från Havanna och sätter kurs mot plantagerna i Puerto Príncipe för att leverera sin mänskliga last av fyrtionio män och fyra barn. Efter fyra dagar till havs gör de fångna uppror, dödar kaptenen och tar kontroll över skeppet. Allt i syfte [...]