Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard

Linebaugh, Peter

ISBN 10: 0520299469 / ISBN 13: 9780520299467

Edité par University of California Press, 2019

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xxii, 462 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Summary:"Red Round Globe Hot Burning tells the story of an Irish revolutionary, Edward Despard, and his wife, Catherine, an Afro-American abolitionist, in their efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to maintain the commons against attempts to enclose and privatize its land and resources. Their story takes the form of a quest, or two related searches for a woman and for the commons. The story begins in Ireland, joins them at first in Jamaica and then in central America, before returning to London and their final struggle on behalf of "the principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice." He attempted to organize an insurrection, she succeeded in halting the construction of the panopticon. His defeat at the gallows and hers in anonymous exile were part of a turning point in the history of the earth and the commencement of the anthropocene"--Provided by publisher.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0520299469
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780520299467
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Neuf
• État de la jaquette: Neuf
• Dimensions: 15,84 L x 23,46 H x 3,56 P (centimètres) 15,84 centimètres de largeur par 23,46 centimètres de hauteur par 3,56 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 794 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Development Studies
  • Politics

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Synopsis

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 Anthropocene's birth amidst enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory machine production, Red Round Globe Hot Burning throws readers into the pivotal 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 Linebaugh's 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 Burning is the culmination of a lifetime of research--encapsulated through an epic tale of love.

À propos de l'auteur

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.