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Human Rights and Revolutions (review)

Human Rights and Revolutions (review) journal of world history, fall 2002 race and citizenship in order to draw a veil over the motley multiethnic mobs of the Atlantic seaports where the Revolution began. The authors don't play it safe; risk taking is integral to their exploration of such a vast and hitherto largely concealed canvas. Specialists will contest some of the frameworks of interpretation deployed in certain quarters of such a wide-ranging book. Linebaughand Rediker occasionally verge on the polemical, and they are open about the debt they owe to theBritishradical tradition of Christopher Hill and E. P. Thompson. Moreover, they appear to lack sympathy for alternative historical interpretations, and this occasionally leads to a lopsidedness in analysis. In particular, the historical sociology of early modern England is too boldly set out and omits some of the subtleties of a complex and manyrunged social hierarchy in a world, moreover, where confessional allegiance and partisan commitment (e.g., popular Anglican royalism and later popular Jacobitism) cut across the grain of Linebaugh and Rediker's stark bipolar opposition of oppressors and oppressed. Indeed, despite their fascinating discussions of the prehistory of liberation theology, Linebaugh and Rediker might have said more about the religious --as opposed to the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Human Rights and Revolutions (review)

Hsiung, James Chieh
Journal of World History , Volume 13 (2) – Oct 1, 2002
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journal of world history, fall 2002 race and citizenship in order to draw a veil over the motley multiethnic mobs of the Atlantic seaports where the Revolution began. The authors don't play it safe; risk taking is integral to their exploration of such a vast and hitherto largely concealed canvas. Specialists will contest some of the frameworks of interpretation deployed in certain quarters of such a wide-ranging book. Linebaughand Rediker occasionally verge on the polemical, and they are open about the debt they owe to theBritishradical tradition of Christopher Hill and E. P. Thompson. Moreover, they appear to lack sympathy for alternative historical interpretations, and this occasionally leads to a lopsidedness in analysis. In particular, the historical sociology of early modern England is too boldly set out and omits some of the subtleties of a complex and manyrunged social hierarchy in a world, moreover, where confessional allegiance and partisan commitment (e.g., popular Anglican royalism and later popular Jacobitism) cut across the grain of Linebaugh and Rediker's stark bipolar opposition of oppressors and oppressed. Indeed, despite their fascinating discussions of the prehistory of liberation theology, Linebaugh and Rediker might have said more about the religious --as opposed to the

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Published: Oct 1, 2002

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