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| | Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Capital punishment and the threat of mutiny, therefore, mark the history of the Atlantic even from the outset, and demonstrate that the Europeans who sailed to the New World were far from a homogenous and unified lot. |
 | | Yet anti-imperialist and postcolonial historians, in exposing the terror and genocide the Europeans collectively inflicted upon the native populations, have tended to pass over the diversity and dissension that lie even at the heart of the colonising project. |
 | | Yet it was not always so, and The Many-Headed Hydra's "hidden history" takes in a host of strikes, mutinies, and rebellions in which disparate forces co-operated for their own ends and on their own terms, rather than labouring, divided, for the cause of European colonialism. |
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