Dr. Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the University of Toledo and author of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (with Marcus Rediker); The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century; and many other books and articles on the history of crime, punishment, property relations, and class relations. He is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch Magazine.

Praise for Dr. Linebaugh and The Magna Carta Manifesto:

"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." [publisher]

"Original, powerful and groundbreaking...Linebaugh sends an important message to a world that increasingly believes that private ownership of our resources can make us more prosperous. As we struggle to regain lost liberty The Magna Carta Manifesto makes us understand that freedom is...about guaranteeing the economic and social rights that allow all of us to partake of political freedom." —Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights

"In this remarkable book, Linebaugh traces one path of liberty back to the forests and the economic independence they represented for medieval Britons, another path to recent revolutionaries, another to the Bush Administration's assaults on habeas corpus, the Constitution, and liberty...and he links the human rights charter that Magna Carta represented to the less-known Forest Charter, drawing a missing link between ecological and social well-being." —Rebecca Solnit, author of
Storming the Gates of Paradise

"There is not a more important historian living today. Period." —Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

"Ranging across the centuries, and from England to Asia, Africa and the Americas, Linebaugh shows us the contested history of Magna Carta — how the liberties it invoked were secured and (as today) violated, and how generations of ordinary men and women tried to revive the idea of the commons in the hope of building a better world." —Eric Foner, author of The Story of American Freedom

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