Peter Linebaugh, author of the London Hanged (Allen Laine 1991), completed his PhD. at the Center for Social History at Warwick with E.P. Thompson. He currently holds a one-year position at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. With Douglus Hay and E.P. Thompson he editied Albion's Fatal Tree and is currently working on The Many-Headed Hydra with Marcus Rediker, a study of the Atlantic proletariat in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.