Author: Peter Linebaugh File Type: pdf On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed that he was a friend to the poor and oppressed. He expressed trust that the principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice will triumph over falsehood, tyranny, and delusion. And yet the world turned. From the connected events of the American, French, Haitian, and failed Irish Revolutions, to the Anthropocenes birth amidst enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory machine production,Red Round Globe Hot Burningthrows readers intothepivotal moment of the last two millennia. This monumental history, packed with a wealth of detail, presents a comprehensive chronicle of the resistance to the demise of communal regimes. Peter Linebaughs extraordinary narrative recovers the death-defying heroism of extended networks of underground resisters fighting against privatization of the commons accomplished by two new political entities, the U.S.A. and the U.K., that we now know would dispossess people around the world through today.Red Round Globe Hot Burningis the culmination of a lifetime of researchencapsulated through an epic tale of love. **From the Inside Flap This wide-ranging, intricate, penetrating analysis of the developing process of enclosure and exploitation during a critical era of the development of capitalism in the Atlantic world, and the manifold modes of popular resistance, provides fascinating insight into the origins of our society, with rich implications for addressing its crimes and its current race to destruction.Noam Chomsky Its often assumed that superb scholarship and beautiful writing are rival forces, but in Peter Linebaughs work they are the same tremendous force evoking and contextualizing moments of crisis and possibility in the past with a vividness that casts new light on our own time.Rebecca Solnit, author ofA Paradise Built in Hell The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Poetic and moving, Red Round Globe Hot Burning shows what history can do. This is the work of a historian of genius, rich in detail, powerfully written, and animated by a passion for justice.Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation A remarkable tour de force of eloquence and erudition, Peter Linebaughs new book brilliantly recovers the popular-democratic histories of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, tracking them back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea. Histories of capitalist modernity, he shows, are inseparable from the courageous creativity of the popular struggles whose defeats enabled them.Geoff Eley, author of A Crooked Line From Cultural History to the History of Society Peter Linebaugh is the best, most creative, most original historian living today. Red Round Globe Hot Burning can be seen as a distillation of his lifes work. This is a window on the 600-year struggle over the commons that has a lot to say about our current times. Writing in prose that channels the poetry of William Blake in every sentence, this may be his most innovative book, yet.Robin Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams The Black Radical Imagination About the Author Peter Linebaugh is a historian and the author of The Magna Carta Manifesto,The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day, and Stop, Thief!, among many others, and the co-author, with Marcus Rediker, of The Many-Headed Hydra. His articles have appeared in publications that include CounterPunch, the New Left Review, and Radical History Review.

Author: Lawrence Lanahan File Type: epub A masterful narrativewith echoes of Evicted and The Color of Law that brings to life the structures, policies, and beliefs that divide us Mark Lange and Nicole Smith have never met, but if they make the moves they are contemplatingMark, a white suburbanite, to West Baltimore, and Nicole, a black woman from a poor city neighborhood, to a prosperous suburbit will defy the way the Baltimore region has been programmed for a century. It is one region, but separate worlds. And it was designed to be that way. In this deeply reported, revelatory story, duPont Awardwinning journalist Lawrence Lanahan chronicles how the region became so highly segregated and why its fault lines persist today. Mark and Nicole personify the enormous disparities in access to safe housing, educational opportunities, and decent jobs. As they eventually pack up their lives and change places, bold advocates and activistsin the courts and in the streetsstruggle to figure out what it will take to save our cities and communities Put money into poor, segregated neighborhoods? Make it possible for families to move into areas with more opportunity? The Lines Between Us is a riveting narrative that compels reflection on Americas entrenched inequalityand on where the rubber meets the road not in the abstract, but in our own backyards. Taking readers from church sermons to community meetings to public hearings to protests to the Supreme Court to the death of Freddie Gray, Lanahan deftly exposes the intricacy of Baltimores hypersegregation through the stories of ordinary people living it, shaping it, and fighting it, day in and day out. This eye-opening account of how a city creates its black and white places, its rich and poor spaces, reveals that these problems are not intractable but they are designed to endure until each of usdespite living in separate worldsunderstands we have something at stake. About the Author Lawrence Lanahan is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has appeared on Colorlines, NPRs Morning Edition, and Al-Jazeera America. A recipient of the Carey Institutes Logan Nonfiction Fellowship as well as the Columbia Universitys DuPont Award, he currently resides in Baltimore.