Format:
Online-Ressource (372 p.)
ISBN:
9780520247260
Content:
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 histor
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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; 6. 1776 and Runnamede; 7. The Law of the Jungle; 8. Magna Carta and the U.S. Supreme Court; 9. Icon and Idol; 10. This Land Was Made by You and Me; 11. The Constitution of the Commons; 12. Conclusion; Appendix; 1. Magna Carta; 2. The Charter of the Forest; Glossary; Further Reading; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520932708
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520260009
Additional Edition:
Print version The Magna Carta Manifesto : Liberties and Commons for All
Language:
English
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