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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
[edit]Linebaugh was born in 1942.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
Career
[edit]About the second edition of his book The London Hanged—and about Linebaugh's unique place in the pantheon of 21st-century historians more broadly—Nicholas Lezard wrote, "For a start, this is a work of proper history: with all due respect to Dava Sobel . . . and others who set out to make their histories entertaining and, crucially, popular by giving them a narrative, this is a work by a proper historian, whose only concession to the marketplace is the fact that he has made a connection that should command our attention."[4] Historian Robin Kelley praised Linebaugh's book The Magna Carta Manifesto (2008), arguing that there is "not a more important historian living today. Period."[5]
Linebaugh's writing has appeared in New Left Review, the New York University Law Review, Radical History Review, and Social History. He is also a frequent contributor to CounterPunch.
Personal life
[edit]Linebaugh is married to Michaela Brennan. He has two daughters, Kate and Riley Linebaugh.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Identifiants et référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche (IdRef) (accessed 16 April 2019)
- ^ 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)
- ^ "Peter Linebaugh". University of Toledo. 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- ^ Nicholas Lezard, "At the End of the Rope," The Guardian, March 11, 2006
- ^ "Editorial Reviews". Amazon. 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
- ^ "Kate Linebaugh, Alex Ortolani". The New York Times. 26 September 2009.
Bibliography
[edit]- Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (with Doug Hay and E. P. Thompson). Pantheon Press, 1975.
- The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. London: Allen Lane, 1991.
- The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (with Marcus Rediker). Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.
- The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
- Ypsilanti Vampire May Day. Occupy Ypsilanti, 2012.
- Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811–12. Oakland: PM press, 2012.
- Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance. Oakland: PM Press, 2014.
- The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day. Oakland: PM Press, 2016.
- Red Hot Globe Round Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019.
