Ned Ludd & Queen Mab (Paperback)

Peter Linebaugh

ISBN 10: 1604867043 / ISBN 13: 9781604867046

Published by PM Press, Oakland, 2012

About this Item

Paperback. 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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ned Ludd & Queen Mab (Paperback)
• Publisher: PM Press, Oakland
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604867043
• ISBN 13: 9781604867046
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.