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Marcus Rediker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Marcus Rediker is a historian and author. Historian (from below), award-winning author and filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh

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Book Cover for: Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel, David Lester

Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel

David LesterMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

Looking to add a graphic novel to a spring syllabus? Check out *Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, A Graphic Novel* from @BeaconPressBks. Even though the official publication date is Feb. 7, we have copies ready for order. https://t.co/zwL4VQrCR4 https://t.co/oobOhRqKR6

Paperback, 2023

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution Volume 66, Christina Heatherton

Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution Volume 66

Christina HeathertonMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

The world is a better place now that this extraordinary book is in it. #historyfrombelow

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture, Kathy E. Ferguson

Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture

Kathy E. FergusonMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

My blurb: “This labor of love brings back to us an almost-lost world in vivid and exemplary ways, with theoretical sophistication, historical depth, analytical rigor, and literary flair. Letterpress Revolution is a beautiful book—and a hopeful gift to future generations.”

Paperback, 2023

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Clr James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries, John L. Williams

Clr James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

John L. WilliamsMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

Check out Paul Buhle's review of a new biography of CLR James by John L. Williams. https://t.co/5X0Ob53ZzW

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, Christopher Hill

The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

Christopher HillMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

Name a book that changed your life. Mine was Christopher Hill’s *The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution* (1972). Read the book while working in a factory in Richmond, VA. The experience made me want to become a historian.

Paperback, 2021

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Peter Linebaugh

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Peter LinebaughMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

Thanks to New Zealand-based author and archivist Jared Davidson (@anrchivist), who included *The Many Headed Hydra* in his list of the five “Best Radical History Books that Rocked my World” on Shepherd: https://shepherd.com/best-books/radical-history-that-rocked-my-world

Paperback, 2013

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison

Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni MorrisonMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

Toni Morrison was one of the first to note the racial politics of Bailyn’s work in her *Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination* (1993). Bailyn focused on gentlemen of uninspected whiteness who defined themselves by the black and red “savages” around them.

Paperback, 1993

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Blake: Prophet Against Empire, David V. Erdman

Blake: Prophet Against Empire

David V. ErdmanMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

Here's an example: because Benjamin Lay and William Blake shared the tradition of antinomian radicalism, I chose the title *Prophet against Slavery* as an allusion to David Erdman's *Blake: Prophet against Empire*.

Paperback, 2011

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist, with a New Pre Face and Afterword, Marcus Rediker

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist, with a New Pre Face and Afterword

Marcus RedikerMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

The secret lives of books. Hardly anyone knows it, but my book *The Fearless Benjamin Lay* – whom I call “the last radical of the English Revolution” – is a love song to the late Christopher Hill. A book about a heretic in memory of a heretic. https://t.co/iujzJZUyvx

Paperback, 2018

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, David Graeber

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

David GraeberMarcus RedikerMarcus Rediker

For any who may have missed it, here's my review of the late @davidgraeber's final, brilliant book, *Pirate Enlightenment; or, the Real Libertalia* published in @thenation, entitled “Enlightenment From Below: Pirates and Radical Democracy in Madagascar.” https://t.co/jPq5M2qHAg

Paperback, 2024

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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