What is it about?
This interview, conducted by Jeffrey Williams, surveys forty years of historical research and publication by Marcus Rediker on the workers of the Atlantic world -- sailors, pirates, enslaved Africans, indentured servants, domestic workers, and urban laborers, all part of a "motley crew" in a maritime context.
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Why is it important?
History from below is the most democratic and inclusive kind of history, offering a new historical understanding of the working people of the past as both subjects and agents of change.
Perspectives
Jeffrey Williams is Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Marcus Rediker
University of Pittsburgh
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This page is a summary of: History Below Deck: An Interview with Marcus Rediker, symplokē, January 2020, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.5250/symploke.28.1-2.0547.
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