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The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All 1st Edition

by Peter Linebaugh Ph.D. (Author)
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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 companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0520247264
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0520247260
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    University of California Press
  5. Publication date
    February 10, 2008
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches
  8. Print length
    376 pages
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“With a passion, eloquence and lyrical reverence for the hard-won freedoms of Old England that take the breath away.” (The Independent 2008-06-20)

“The year's most lyrical and necessary book on liberty. The Magna Carta Manifesto is such a pleasure to read.” (John Nichols The Nation 2008-12-31)

“Shows how restraints against tyranny are being abridged as rights once held inalienable are laid aside.” (Times Higher Education 2008-09-18)

“Linebaugh should be commended for the impressive scope of his analysis.” (Insight Turkey 2010-12-13)

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"This is an original, powerful and ground breaking book. It is utterly fascinating and charts a path that gives me, and will give others, hope for a better future. 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

"Ideas can be beautiful too, and the ideas Peter Linebaugh provokes and maps in this history of liberty are dazzling, reminders of what we have been and who we could be. In this remarkable small book, he 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: The Black Radical Imagination

"Ranging across the centuries, and from England to Asia, Africa and the Americas, Peter 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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; 1st edition (February 10, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520247264
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520247260
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

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james costanzo
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly covers the complex issues of the evolution of political ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2015
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Brilliantly covers the complex issues of the evolution of political and judicial rights in England and the early American colonies. Of equally importance is the Charter of the Forrest which is overlooked aspect of the Magna Carta. The Charter of the Forest deals with economic survival.
"The message of the two charters [Magna Carta & Charter of the Forest} and the message of this book is plain: political and legal rights can exist only on an economic foundation. To be free citizens we must also be equal producers and consumers. What I shall call the commons-the theory that vests all property in the community and organizes labor for the common benefit of all- must exist in both juridical forms and day-to-day material reality."
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Shayn Mccallum
4.0 out of 5 stars A truly brilliant statement of a key issue of our times
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2008
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This is a wonderful book that makes immense sense read alongside Karl Polanyi's "the Great Transformation", the masterpiece of political economy written in the 1940's.
I find Linebaugh's approach to these issues, viewing the use of law "social contracts" and constitutions through a lense rooted squarely in history and political-economy both instructive and fascinating. I myself had never given much time to pondering the "Magna Carta" idea or considering its implications for a liberating political-economy but this book explores these issues exceptionally well.
A former instructor of mine at Bosphorus University, Dr. Huricihan 'slamo'lu,actually more-or-less pioneered the field of "political economy of law" but this work is very much in the same vein and is an outstanding contribution to the analysis and solution of one of the key issues we face today; the struggle to preserve and extend the "commons" against the all-consuming transformation being wrought on society by unrestrained (or rather, "barely restrained")private power.
I thoroughly recommend this book for anyone interested in social justice and the struggle for a more humane world.
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Azilmak
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2011
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I came across this book as I was researching for my own book and I must say I was blown away. Linebaugh while completely unknown to me prior to reading this has just become a go to resource. I'm blown away by the depth of knowledge contained here. I can only hope that my book will someday be regarded as I now regard this book.
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Peace Maven
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2016
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Thoughtful and exciting call to return to Yeoman values of the common.
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Pat Patton
3.0 out of 5 stars A Little Marxism, Anyone?
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2008
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Linebaugh (yes, its not "Limbaugh") does some good, and some other stuff as well. His basic, and welcome contribution is to emphasize the seldom noticed "Charter of the Forests," the little brother of the Magna Carta, which deserves more attention.

Linebaug's disservice is seeing everything through "commoning" lenses, i.e., communist theory. If you, like me, don't read much Marxist revisionism, you will have a weary time plowing through all the references to "imminent" communists (largely unknown to me), who seem to have more ways of cooking the same communal stuff than Italian chefs have for preparing pasta.

And the distraction is regretable because it obscures an important point: since the time of William the Conquerer the way we have contolled and organized the economic use of land has been one of the central formative factors in the development of Western Civilization - if Western Civilization matters to progressive intellectuals any more.

Linebaugh sees nothing but goodness in "commoning" but I wondered how he would react if I "commoned" his car or his house or his library.
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ljvirgo
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource and reference book
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2015
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Great resource for those interested in the origins of politics of human rights and politics.
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Virgilio Vallejo
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2015
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Excellent conditions.
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Keith F. Harcourt
4.0 out of 5 stars Manga Carta and Our History
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2015
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Tedious, but valuable history from a viewpoint.
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Laura Lucio
5.0 out of 5 stars Deeper Understanding
Reviewed in Canada on September 11, 2016
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Fast delivery. What a fantastic, engrossing learning experience from an historian who writes with personality.
He can turn some good phrases.
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