first edition Hard Cover
2008 · California
by Linebaugh, Peter
California: University of California Press, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x8. First edition. Pencil name on title page, pencil and ink marginalia, two creases on jacket flap. Very Good. 2008 Hard Cover. xvi, 352 pp. "This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyrannyĆ¢and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of tortureĆ¢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 history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor. (Inventory #: 2194716)