Date: 13 Jul 2000 08:53:55 +0200
From: "TAHIR WOOD" <twood-AT-uwc.ac.za>
Subject: Re: AUT: Fwd: Beacon Press: Fall 2000: The Many-Headed Hydra
I ordered some stuff from AKPress and after several months
of non-delivery I queried, only to be told that there was no
record of my order, this despite two previous confirmations
of the order and an order number. I was advised to re-order,
which I've now done. Is this place run by anarchists or
what?
Tahir
>>> "Sean Fenley" <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com> 07/13 5:56 AM
>>>
This post makes me wonder if anyone on the list knows
of an good independent bookseller online based in the
U.S.? preferably the east coast. Unfortunately where
i'm living right now there is nothing but "mega"
stores as far as booksellers.
I tried to order from left bank distribution webpage
recently but i think the page may be outdated. also ak
press doesn't have very good online catalog, although
i could probably just write to them and get a regular
catalog, i've hear they are very slow though... i been
ordering from a couple of places to stay away from
amazon and barnes and noble, but i've been looking for
mainly autonomedia and verso stuff and the stores i
have been dealing with don't seem to have that
stuff...
help much appreciated,
-Sean
--- "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave-AT-eco.utexas.edu>
wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:37:20 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Harry M. Cleaver <hmcleave-AT-eco.utexas.edu>
> To: Accion Zapatista de Austin
> <accion-zapatista-AT-lists.cc.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Fwd: Beacon Press: Fall 2000: The
> Many-Headed Hydra (fwd)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:22:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Manuel Yang <badmarxist-AT-yahoo.com>
> To: hmcleave-AT-eco.utexas.edu, juliano de
> <julianotp-AT-yahoo.com>,
> Risako Kurono <kurono-AT-yahoo.com>, Arslan Razmi
> <arazmi1-AT-cs.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Beacon Press: Fall 2000: The
> Many-Headed Hydra
>
>
> Peter Linebaugh and Marcus RedikerThe Many-Headed
> HydraThe Hidden History of the Revolutionary
> Atlantic"For most readers the tale told here will be
> completely new. For those already well acquainted
> with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the
> image of that age which they have been so carefully
> taught and cultivated will be profoundly
> challenged."David Montgomery, author of Citizen
> Worker
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>
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>
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>
> "A landmark in the development of an Atlantic
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>
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>
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> Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker tell their story with
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> in North America
>
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> nation-states. Here, in incendiary form, are
> essential elements for a people's history of our
> dynamic, transcultural present."Paul Gilroy, author
> of The Black Atlantic
>
> "This is a marvelous book. Linebaugh and Rediker
> have done an extraordinary job of research into
> buried episodes and forgotten writings to recapture,
> with eloquence and literary flair, the lost history
> of resistance to capitalist conquest on both sides
> of the Atlantic."Howard Zinn, author of A People's
> History of the United States
>
> Peter Linebaugh, assistant professor of history at
> the University of Toledo, is author of The London
> Hanged. He lives in Toledo, Ohio. Marcus Rediker,
> associate professor of history at the University of
> Pittsburgh, is author of the award-winning Between
> the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. He lives in
> Pittsburgh.
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> 1st ser., trans., dram., aud.: Beacon Press
> Brit.: Verso
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