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Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the ...

Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the ...

Peter Linebaugh

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 ...
Peter Linebaugh Presents Thomas Paine: Common Sense, Rights ...

Peter Linebaugh Presents Thomas Paine: Common Sense, Rights ...

Thomas Paine

Acclaimed historian Peter LInebaugh provides an original examination of Paine's works and legacy in the introduction to these two influential arguments for liberty of political thought--including Common Sense, which inspired the American ...
Labour (St. John's)

Labour (St. John's)

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Jack and Marion Kaminkow's list of migrants to America is not strictly a London list, as Linebaugh states, but a list of emigrants, some of whom travelled far afield, who happened to sail from London.8 Linebaugh's subsequent 'samples' are ...
Midnight Notes Goes to School: Report from the Zapatista ...

Midnight Notes Goes to School: Report from the Zapatista ...

Peter Linebaugh

Out of the Mexican southeast, a new society is emerging, one based on communal lands, recuperation of indigenous culture, gender equality, cooperative self-defense, organic agriculture, and food, shelter, health and education for all.
The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the ...

The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the ...

Peter Linebaugh

Using a decade of original research into the 17th and 18th century, this text unearths ideas and stories about liberty, democracy and freedom that terrified the ruling classes of the time and form the foundations of modern revolutions.
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth ...

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth ...

Peter Linebaugh

In 1719 Captain Alexander Smith wrote, 'Newgate is a dismal prison ... a place of calamity ... a habitation of misery, a confused chaos ... a bottomless pit of violence , a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.'48 About thirty ...
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance

Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance

Peter Linebaugh

Editor: Sasha Lilley Spectre is a series of penetrating and indispensable works of , and about, radical political economy. Spectre lays bare the dark underbelly of politics and economics, publishing outstanding and contrarian perspectives on ...
Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

Peter Linebaugh

Editor: Sasha Lilley Spectre is a series of penetrating and indispensable works of , and about, radical political economy. Spectre lays bare the dark underbelly of politics and economics, publishing outstanding and contrarian perspectives on ...
Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York

Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York

Serena Zabin

Harvard University Press, 1997); MichaelJ. Jarvis, “Maritime Masters and Seafaring Slaves in Berrnuda, 1680-1783,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 59, no. 3 (July 2002): 585-622; Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh, The ...
Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance ...

Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance ...

Nancy Lee Peluso

1975b Peter Linebaugh, john G. Rule, E. P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow, pp. 17- 64. New York: Pantheon Poaching and the game laws on Cannock Chase. In Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Douglas ...
The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All

The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All

Peter Linebaugh

A hundred years later Edna Healey, growing up in the forest purlieus amid its druidical stones and trees, remembered a nickname at school for any obstreperous child, “Chopper James.” Edna Healey, introduction to Fay Godwin, The Secret ...
City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35

City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35

Michael Boudreau

Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow, 17-63. New York: Penguin Books, 1975. Hay, Douglas, and Francis Snyder, eds. Policing and Prosecution in Britain, 1750-1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India,1792–1947

Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India,1792–1947

Velayutham Saravanan

Crime of Anonymity«, in Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.P. Thompson and Cal Winslow (eds), Albin's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England, New York: Pantheon Books, 1975, p. 255; Ranajit Guha ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and  ...
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...

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