Peter Linebaugh

Broschiertes Buch

Ned Ludd & Queen Mab

Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12

Beschreibung

Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force , enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.

Autor

Peter Linebaugh is the author of The London Hanged (London: Penguin, 1991), The Magna Carta Manifesto (University of California Press, 2008), and with Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (Beacon Press, 2000). He has written introductions to a book of Thomas Paine’s writing (Verso, 2009) and to a new edition of E.P. Thompson’s, William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (PM Press, 2011). He works at the University of Toledo in Ohio.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 139mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 75g
• ISBN-13: 9781604867046
• ISBN-10: 1604867043
• Artikelnr.: 35211872