Ned Ludd & Queen Mab : machine-breaking, romanticism, and the several commons of 1811-12 / Peter Linebaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linebaugh, Peter.

Series:

PM Pamphlet

Retort pamphlet series ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Luddites.

Working class--England.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (49 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, Calif : PM Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.

Contents:

Cover; Note from the Author; Copyright; Acknowledgements; About the Author; I.; II.; III.; IV.; V.; VI.; VII.; VIII.; IX.; X.; XI.; XII.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Peter Linebaugh is the author of The London Hanged (London: Penguin, 1991), The Magna Carta Manifesto (University of California Press, 2008), and with Marcus Rediker, The Many Headed Hydra (Beacon Press, 2000). He has written introductions to a book of Thomas Paine's writing (Verso, 2009) and to a new edition of E.P. Thompson's, William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (PM Press, 2011). He works at the University of Toledo in Ohio.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-60486-710-8

OCLC:

784885540