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(All  references to "Chapter ...", without a specific title, are to Chapters in Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra)

On Chapter Two

• Karl Marx, from Capital, vol. 1, on Primitive Accumulation (four chapters in all).
• Thomas More, from Utopia, on Enclosures.
• Richard Wilson, "Like the old Robin Hood": As You Like It and the Enclosure Riots," Shakespeare Quarterly 43, 1 (Spring 1992), 1-19 (PDF)
• Meredith Ann Skura, "Discourse and the Individual: The Case of Colonialism in The Tempest", Shakespeare Quarterly, 40 (1989) (PDF)
• Ted Allen, "Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race, Part I," Cultural Logic 1, 2 (1999).
  • Also in PDF format, with page numbers, on our FTP server.
• Silvia Federici, "The Great Witch-Hunt", from The Maine Scholar 1 (1988), 31-52 (PDF)
• Page Dubois, "Subjected Bodies, Science and the State: Francis Bacon, Torturer," from Ryan and Gordon, Body Politics (1994) (PDF)
• Paul Brown, "This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine: The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism," from Dollimore and Sinfield, Political Shakespeare (1985) (PDF)
• James Axtell, "The White Indians of Colonial America," William and Mary Quarterly 1975 (PDF)
• Ronald Takaki, "The Tempest in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery," JAH 1992 (PDF).

(We are skipping Chapter Three)

On Chapter Four

I. The English Revolution

    Leveller Documents

• The Levellers and Diggers Index
• The Levellers and Irish Freedom; use the PDF edition here.
• An Agreement of the People
• Richard Overton, "A Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens"
• Levellers Documents
• The English Souldiers Standard (fuller than on "The Levellers and Irish Freedom" page above)

    The Putney Debates

• Longer Version
• Discussion of the Putney Debates at British government official site.
• Brief overview of Putney Debates at British Civil War page.

    Winstanley and Anonymous Radicals

• "A Light Shining In Buckinghamshire" (PDF)
• "More Light Shining In Buckinghamshire" (PDF)
• Winstanley, "The Law of Freedom in a Platform"; use the PDF edition here.
• Winstanley, "A Declaration From the Poor Oppressed People of England"
• A Door of Hope (PDF)
• A Standard Set Up (PDF)

    Articles

• Sutherland, "The Religion of Gerrard Winstanley and Digger Communism"
• James Holstun, "Communism, George Hill, and the Mir: Was Marx a Nineteenth-Century Winstanleyan?" (PDF)
• Dalton, "Winstanley: The Experience of Fraud" (PDF)
• Christopher Hill, "Levellers and True Levellers," from The World Turned Upside Down, 1972 (PDF).
• Christopher Hill, "The Many-Headed Monster," from Change and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century England, 1975 (PDF).
• Andrew Stumer, "The Sixteenth Century Apocalypse: The Fifth Monarchists", Academic Essays (U. Queensland, AU) (PDF)

    Other Materials

• Killing No Murder (PDF)
• "The Servants' Plot of 1663", from Virginia Historical Magazine, 1906 (PDF)
• The Culpepper Rebellion, from The Colonial Records of North Carolina I, 256-261 (PDF)
• "A German Indentured Servant in Barbados in 1652," Journal of Barbados Museum Society. (PDF)
• "The World's Mistake in Oliver Cromwell", Lampeter Corpus (1653) (PDF)

II. Outside of England

• Bacon's Rebellion
  • Bacon's Declaration
  • PBS Page on Multi-Racial Unity in Bacon's Rebellion (see also the two links, with good short quotes, at the bottom of this page)
• Thandeka, "The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy" (similar to Allen, but shorter)
• Lerone Bennett, "The Road Not Taken"
• Ted Allen, "Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race, Part I," Cultural Logic 1, 2 (1999).
• "The Servants' Plot of 1663" (PDF), from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 15 (1908), 38-43. See MHH p. 135 and note 80, p. 374.

On Chapter Five

I. On Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

• Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
• John Richardson, "Swift, 'A Modest Proposal,' and Slavery," Essays in Criticism (Oxford), Vol 51, No. 4 (October, 2001), pp. 404-423. (PDF)
• David Nokes, "Swift and the Beggars," Essays in Criticism 26 (1976), 218-35. (PDF)
• C.J. Rawson, "A Reading of A Modest Proposal," from Augustan Worlds: new essays in eighteenth-century literature, ed. J.C. Hilson, M.M.B. Jones, and J.R. Watson. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978, pp. 28-50. (PDF)

II. On Pirates:

• Christopher Hill, review of Ritchie, Captain Kidd and the Pirates, from New York Review of Books, January 29, 1987. (PDF)
• Christopher Hill, "Radical Pirates?", from The Collected Essays of Christopher Hill, Vol. 3 (Amherst, MA: U MA Pr., 1985). (PDF)
• Clara Lipton, Rum and Religion: Celebration in the European-American Buccaneer World, 1680-1725. (PDF)
• Lawrence Osborne, "A Pirate's Progress: How the Maritime Rogue Became a Cultural Hero," from Lingua Franca, March 1998.
• "Pirate Utopias: Under the Banner of King Death." (PDF) Also in HTML format here.
• Mardus Rediker, "Under the Banner of King Death': The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716-1726," William and Mary Quarterly, 1981 (PDF)
• Marcus Rediker, "Libertalia: The Pirate's Utopia." (PDF)
• Marcus Rediker, "Liberty Beneath the Jolly Roger: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, Pirates." (PDF)

Other Materials

• "The Trapanned Maiden", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1896-97 (PDF)

On Other Chapters

• Lawrence Leder, "Dam'me Don't Stir A Man: Trial of New York Mutineers in 1700," New York Historical Society Quarterly, 1958 (PDF)
• Kelly, James, "The Whiteboys in 1762: A Contemporary Account," Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1959 (PDF)
• May, "The Mutiny of the Chesterfield", Mariners' Mirror 1961 (PDF)
• Orlando Patterson, "Slavery and Slave Revolts: A Socio-Economic Analysis of the First Maroon War, Jamaica: 1655-1740," Social and Economic Studies 1970 (PDF).
• Rediker and Jimenez, "What Is Atlantic History?", CPAS Newsletter, University of Tokyo, 1997 (PDF)
• Rediker, "' Good Hands, Stout Hearts, and Fast Feet': The History and Culture of Working People in Early America," Labour/Le Travailleur, 1982 (PDF)
• Kenneth Scott, "The Slave Insurrection in New York in 1712," New York Historical Society Quarterly, 45 (1961) (PDF)
• Speech of Henry Redhead Yorke, 1795, from Howell's State Trials [Cobbett], Vol 25 (PDF)
• The Conduct of Ralph Hodgson, Esq (1753) (PDF)
• David Walker, Walker's Appeal (1830) (HTML file)
• Thomas Spence, "The Rights of Man" (1793) (PDF)
• -- -- , "The Marine Republic" (1794) (PDF)
• -- -- , "The End of Oppression" (1795) (PDF)
• -- -- , "Hark! How the Trumpet's Sound..." (1782) (PDF)  
• Robert Wedderburn, "The Horrors of Slavery" (PDF)
• E.P. Thompson, from The Making of the English Working Class (1963) - all PDF
  • Chapter 7: "The Field Labourers"
  • "Address of A Journeyman Cotten-Spinner"

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