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Linebaugh, Peter, Ph.D.

The Magna Carta Manifesto

Liberties and Commons for All

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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 comp… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-520-26000-9
  • EAN: 9780520260009
  • Produktnummer: 4311193
  • Verlag: University Of California Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 376 S.
  • Masse: H20.0 cm x B12.9 cm x D2.4 cm 396 g
  • Auflage: Abridged ed
  • Abbildungen: 13 b-w photographs, 1 line illustration, 1 table
  • Gewicht: 396

Über den Autor


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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