The Magna Carta manifesto [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle to reclaim liberties and commons for all / / Peter Linebaugh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782012103321
• Autore: Linebaugh Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-38547-6; 9786611385477; 0-520-93270-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Classificazione: 86.52
• Disciplina: 323.44
• Soggetti: Civil rights; Constitutional history - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- 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 -- 7. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface -- 8. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface -- 9. Icon and Idol -- 10. This Land Was Made by You and Me -- 11. The Constitution of the Commons -- 12. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.