The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for AllUniversity of California Press, 10.02.2008 - 352 Seiten "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 |
Inhalt
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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 |
Index | 321 |
9 Icon and Idol | 192 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
African American ancient archbishop Atlantic barons became Blackstone British called capitalism chapter 39 Charles Charters of Liberties Chiminage church cited civil Coke colonies common lands common rights communist Constitution Crusade customary rights customs Declaration document due process E. P. Thompson economic enclosure England English Revolution equal estovers expropriation feudal Forest Charter Forest Laws freedom George Granville Sharp habeas corpus heir Henry human independence Indian James John Warr June Jungle jury justice King John Kipling labor London Lord Magna Carta means movement Mowgli mural nation Norman Oxford pannage person Petition political poor principle private property process of law proletarian Ramachandra Guha referred Richard Mabey royal Runnymede Silvia Federici slavery social society struggle subsistence terror things Thomas timber tion torture tree trial U.S. Supreme Court United village Waltham Black William Morris women wood workers wrote York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 219 - The by-way back again to take; He started forward, with a shout, And sprang upon poor Goody Blake. And fiercely by the arm he took her, And by the arm he held her fast, And fiercely by the arm he shook her, And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
Seite 225 - To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible, upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.
Seite 121 - O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
Seite 116 - And this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted even in our very soil, that a slave or a negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and so far becomes a freeman (g) ; though the master's right to his service may possibly still continue (6), (7).
Seite 2 - ... natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade.
Seite 95 - I wander thro' each charter'd street Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear: How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls; But most thro...
Seite 123 - Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW is KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.
Seite 120 - And, now and then, it must be said, When her old bones were cold and chill, She left her fire, or left her bed, To seek the hedge of Harry Gill.
Seite 128 - Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected, even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honor.