The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for AllUniversity of California Press, 2008 - 352 strani "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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1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Two Charters | 21 |
3 The Commodity and the Commons | 46 |
4 Charters Lost and Found | 69 |
5 The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface | 94 |
6 1776 and Runnamede | 119 |
7 The Law of the Jungle | 144 |
8 Magna Carta and the US Supreme Court | 170 |
10 This Land Was Made by You and Me | 218 |
11 The Constitution of the Commons | 242 |
12 Conclusion | 269 |
Appendix | 281 |
Glossary | 301 |
Further Reading | 313 |
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9 Icon and Idol | 192 |
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