Jump to content

Peter Linebaugh

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 205.203.130.22 (talk) at 16:03, 13 May 2016 (Early life). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Historian Peter Linebaugh

Peter Linebaugh is an American Marxist historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic. He is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.

Early life

Peter Linebaugh was born in 1943.[citation needed] He was a student of British labor historian E. P. Thompson, and received his Ph.D. in British history from the University of Warwick in 1975.[1] He has taught at University of Rochester, New York University, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Franconia College, Harvard University, and Tufts University. Linebaugh retired from the University of Toledo in 2014.[2]

Career

Linebaugh's books have been generally well received within the discipline of history, and several of his books have demonstrated popularity among general readers. Historian Robin D.G. Kelley praised Linebaugh's most recent book, arguing in a review of The Magna Carta Manifesto (2008) that there is "not a more important historian living today. Period."[3]

In late April 2012, Occupy Ypsilanti published and began to distribute throughout Ypsilanti, Michigan, free of charge, Linebaugh's Ypsilanti Vampire May Day. The full text of the book is available online at CounterPunch,[4] a journal to which Linebaugh is a frequent contributor. His writing also appears in New Left Review, the New York University Law Review, Radical History Review, and Social History.

Personal life

Linebaugh is married to Michaela Brennan. They have one daughter, Riley Linebaugh.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Details of Ph.D, 'Tyburn : a study of crime and the labouring poor in London during the first half of the eighteenth century' included on website of University of Warwick Publications Service and WRAP - http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34708/ (accessed 21 April 2016)
  2. ^ . University of Toledo. 2008 https://www.utoledo.edu/llss/history/faculty/plinebaugh.html. Retrieved 2008-02-26. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "Editorial Reviews". Amazon.com. 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
  4. ^ http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/27/ypsilanti-vampire-may-day/

Bibliography

  • Linebaugh, Peter, Hay, Doug, and Thompson, E.P. (eds.). Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. Pantheon Press, 1975.
  • The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. Allen Laine Press, 1991.
  • Linebaugh, Peter and Rediker, Marcus. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.
  • The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
  • "Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance". Oakland: PM Press, 2014.
  • The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day, PM Press 2016 SKU: 9781629631073.

Articles

Books

Video

Audio