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Peter Linebaugh

Peter Linebaugh is an historian and the author of The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (Verso, 1993), The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All (University of California Press, 2008), The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day (1985 and PM Press, 2016), Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance (PM Press, 2014), and Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons & Closure, of Love & Terror, of Race & Class, and of Kate & Ned Despard (University of California Press, 2019), and the coauthor, with Marcus Rediker, of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Verso, 2000).

  • “Immense Capacities for Creative, Revolutionary Practice”

    Interview with Peter Linebaugh   

    by
    • Peter Linebaugh
    • Gene Ray

    This dialogue with one of the preeminent historians of the Atlantic commons, ranges across the rich history of mutualist invention and solidarity, from the aesthetics of commoning to the resistance to industrial “counter-revolution,” from the Jacquard…