The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All

Peter Linebaugh

Published by University of California Press 2008

The Magna Carta Manifesto

Liberties and Commons for All

Peter Linebaugh

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520932708

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This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny—and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture—are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state. Peter Linebaugh draws on primary sources to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor.

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Linebaugh Peter :

Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the University of Toledo. He is the author of The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century and coauthor (with Marcus Rediker) of Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Two Charters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. The Commodity and the Commons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
4. Charters Lost and Found Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
7. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
9. Icon and Idol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
10. This Land Was Made by You and Me Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
11. The Constitution of the Commons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
12. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 376

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Published: February 10, 2008
ISBN: 9780520932708