The Magna Carta manifesto : the struggle to reclaim liberties and commons for all / Peter Linebaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linebaugh, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magna Carta.

Civil rights.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Two Charters

3. The Commodity and the Commons

4. Charters Lost and Found

5. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface

7. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface

8. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface

9. Icon and Idol

10. This Land Was Made by You and Me

11. The Constitution of the Commons

12. Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786611385477

9781281385475

1281385476

9780520932708

0520932706

OCLC:

437212129