Main entry:

Linebaugh, Peter, author.

Title & Author:

The Magna Carta manifesto : liberties and commons for all / Peter Linebaugh.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]

Description:

xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-320) and index.
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 -- 6. 1776 and Runnamede -- 7. The law of the jungle -- 8. Magna Carta and the U.S. Supreme Court -- 9. Icon and idol -- 10. This land was made by you and me -- 11. The constitution of the commons -- 12. Conclusion -- Appendix -- 1. Magna Carta -- 2. The charter of the forest -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Index.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780520247260 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520247264 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520260009 (trade paperback)
0520260007 (trade paperback)

Subject:

Magna Carta.
Magna carta
Civil rights.
Constitutional history United States.
Histoire constitutionnelle États-Unis.
HISTORY Europe.
HISTORY World.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Constitutional history
Verfassung
Grondrechten.
United States of America.
Civil and political rights.
Constitutional law.
Legal history.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
England Magna Charta.

Added entries:

University of California Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298110
Call No.: BIB 244392
Status: Available