The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
by Peter Linebaugh
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Author: Peter LinebaughEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-10
ISBN: 0520247264
Number of pages: 376
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: Superb
Summary: 5 Stars
Linebaugh's book is REAL history--with documentation that can be contested. While I disagree that the Magna Carta was a document of "liberty" the book is filled with so much insight that it is worhy of his great teacher Edward Thompson.His comparison with the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence is brilliant. I agree with the levelers Walwyn and Overton and with the digger Winstanely--Magna Carta (as a guarantee of rights) is not worth a "mess of poridge". But this is a very great book. Enough said
Summary of The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All
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.General Books
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