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Marcus Rediker's Degrees

PhD History University of Pennsylvania
Masters History University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors History Virginia Commonwealth University

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According to Wikipedia, Marcus Buford Rediker is an American professor, historian, writer, and social activist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976 and attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study, earning an Master of Arts and Ph.D. in history. He taught at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1994 and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.

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The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2001) (600)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (1987) (269)
The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007) (195)
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (2004) (101)
The Many-Headed Hydra (2000) (94)
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century (1990) (78)
Pirates and the Imperial State@@@Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates. (1988) (61)
History from below the water line: Sharks and the Atlantic slave trade (2008) (48)
Reviews of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, with a Response (2001) (41)
The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism (1991) (35)
An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1981) (34)
Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world (2007) (30)
Many Middle Passages (2019) (29)
The Slave Ship (2008) (25)
"Under the Banner of King Death": The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716 to 1726 (1981) (24)
Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail (2014) (23)
Patterns of Pillage: A Geography of Caribbean-based Piracy in Spanish America, 1536-1718 (1998) (20)
Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada (1982) (18)
Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: An Introduction* (2013) (18)
The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (2012) (17)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. (1989) (15)
"Good Hands, Stout Heart, and Fast Feet": The History and Culture of Working People in Early America (1982) (13)
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820–1914. By Eric W. Sager (Kingston, Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. xviii plus 321 pp.) (1991) (12)
The Revenge of Crispus Attucks; or, The Atlantic Challenge to American Labor History (2004) (7)
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (2017) (7)
The Common Seaman in the Histories of Capitalism and the Working Class (1989) (7)
Reviews of Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (1989) (5)
The African Origins of the Amistad Rebellion, 1839 (2013) (4)
A Global History of Runaways (2019) (3)
Society and culture among Anglo-American deep sea sailors, 1700-1750 (1982) (3)
The Many-Headed Hydra: Reflections on History from Below (2014) (3)
"A Most Irregular Traffic": The Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labour Trade (2007) (2)
Human History (2019) (2)
“To Serve Well and Faithfully”: Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800. By Sharon V. Salinger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xi plus 192 pp.) (1989) (2)
Afterword: Reflections on the Motley Crew as Port City Proletariat (2019) (2)
Getting Out of the Graveyard: Perry Anderson, Edward Thompson and the Arguments of English Marxism (1982) (2)
Jack Tar Fights Back@@@Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World 1700-1750 (1991) (2)
A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850 (2019) (2)
Atlantic Colonies@@@The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic@@@American Colonies (2002) (1)
Hydra's Materialist History (2003) (1)
An editorial approach : Mike Nelson ’ s corridors and The Deliverance and The Patience (2012) (1)
Capp Bernard. Cromwell's Navy: The Fleet and the English Revolution, 1648–1660. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1989. Pp. xii, 420. $79.00. (1991) (1)
Floating Proletarians@@@Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. (1988) (1)
Colloquy with Marcus Rediker on The Slave Ship: A Human History (2010) (1)
14. The Pirate and the Gallows An Atlantic Theater of Terror and Resistance (2017) (1)
Williams Glyn. The Prize of All the Oceans: The Dramatic True Story of Commodore Anson's Voyage Round the World and How He Seized the Spanish Treasure Galleon. New York: Viking. 1999. Pp. Xix, 264. $27.95. ISBN 0-670-89197-5. (2002) (0)
Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade (2015) (0)
History Below Deck: An Interview with Marcus Rediker (2020) (0)
Currents in Transatlantic history (2017) (0)
CFP: The Future of Atlantic, Transnational, and World History - geschichte.transnational / Termine (2013) (0)
Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World: Convicts, sailors, and a dissonant empire by Johan Heinsen (review) (2020) (0)
Book Reviews: Neptune's Militia: The Frigate South Carolina during the American Revolution, by James A. Lewis (2000) (0)
The Many-Headed Hydra: A Roundtable Response (2001) (0)
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity (review) (2001) (0)
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. By Hans Turley (New York and London: New York University Press, 1999. 199 pp.) (2001) (0)
Toward a ‘real, profane history’ of early American society∗ (1985) (0)
Reflections on History from Below (2022) (0)
Escaping Slavery by Sea in Antebellum America: A Labor History (2022) (0)
Book Reviews: A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for American Independence, by Ray Raphael. (2002) (0)
Life and Labour in England, 1700-1780@@@The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century English Industry@@@Masters and Journeymen: A Prehistory of Industrial Relations, 1717-1800 (1985) (0)
Human Histories Onstage: A Conversation on Collaboration with Naomi Wallace & Marcus Rediker (2019) (0)
The Forgotten Prophet (2021) (0)
Marcus Rediker: "The Floating Dungeon: A History of the Slave Ship" (2008) (0)
The Old Guard, the New Guard, and the People at the Gates: New Approaches to the Study of American History in the U.S.S.R. (1991) (0)
Currents in Transatlantic History: Encounters, Commodities, Identities (2017) (0)
PIRATES AND THE IMPERIAL STATE (2016) (0)
Postscript: The Gun-Slave Cycle (2019) (0)
Book Review: Women & Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution, edited by Harriet B. Applewhite and Darline G. Levy (1991) (0)
Michael Merrill and Sean Wilentz eds., The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, “A Laborer,” 1747–1814. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), xvi + 240 pp. $35.50 cloth; $14.95 paper. (1995) (0)
Davies J. D.. Gentlemen and Tarpaulins: The Officers and Men of the Restoration Navy. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1991. Pp. xii, 270. $69.00. (1993) (0)
Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World (2009) (0)

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The many-headed hydra : sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic