{"product_id":"red-round-globe-hot-burning-9780520299467","title":"Red Round Globe Hot Burning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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 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 Linebaugh's extraordinary \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peter Linebaugh is acknowledged as a chronicler with a left-wing view. He is also described as a historian of genius. His book presents us with the facts, and what a glorious luxury that is. But of course we have a choice about which facts we want to examine, and he assiduously takes us up neglected side roads on a journey to America, England, Haiti, Honduras, Ireland and Nicaragua. And to prison. In \u003ci\u003eRed Round Globe Hot Burning\u003c\/i\u003e he invites us to benefit from his lifetime of reading and writing.” * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003e“Offers unconventional biography and unconventional history. Linebaugh goes where biographers and historians are often taught not to go: to places where there are no archival records and where a writer has to be inventive and imaginative. . . . Few tomes are as much fun to read.\" * Counterpunch *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Red Round Globe Hot Burning\u003c\/i\u003e is a disturbing and challenging book. It kept me awake and note-taking through a whole night. . . . Linebaugh’s exploration of the assault on the Commons and how our antecedents struggled to resist the depredations is an invaluable education.\" * International Socialism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"While it is nearly impossible to convey the flow of subjects embodied in \u003ci\u003eRed Round Globe Hot Burning\u003c\/i\u003e, the sweep of interracial history, the place of seemingly ordinary people in challenging the very basis of class society, will be understood better by those reading this worthy volume.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Truthout *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Peter Linebaugh has produced another masterful history ‘from below' . . . . In language that is sometimes visceral, imaginative and often sublimely eloquent he analyses the conditions in which people were living and working, making connections, while leaving the reader with a global overview of the struggle against colonial and imperial power.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   * Socialist Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Once more, Peter Linebaugh highlights uncomfortable truths.”\u003cbr\u003e   * Monthly Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An erudite work by a scholar who adapted classic ‘history from below’ to more diverse subjects, while integrating environmental history and literary studies . . . \u003ci\u003eRed Round Globe Hot Burning\u003c\/i\u003e will hold the interest of a wide array of historians. The vignettes collected in the book display the burning power of ideas in a period of tumultuous change.”\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRed Round Globe Hot Burning\u003c\/i\u003e is [Linebaugh's] greatest masterpiece yet in a lifetime of triumphs. It is a mind-blowing contribution to his lifelong quest for the commons. . . . You have a writer of such extraordinary power that reading him can move you to tears (and will always lift your spirits).” * Independent Left *\u003cbr\u003e\"A live, immediate, textured portrait.\" * World History Connected *\u003cbr\u003e“Far-ranging and fascinating. . . . It is impossible to summarize briefly the enormously rich content of this work.” * Fifth Estate *\u003cbr\u003e\"Very occasionally a book comes along that anyone with an interest in history and politics must read, and this is such a book. . . . An immensely rewarding book and worth the effort to accompany Linebaugh on his journey through history.\" * Irish Marxist Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Astonishing . . . . Builds on decades of research and investigation, the meticulous sifting of popular archives that span the Atlantic and combine political broadsheets, scientific tracts, and folksongs.. . . . Reading the book as the murder of George Floyd sparked the Black Lives Matter movement into a global reckoning with legacies of slavery, war, colonialism and empire, it was hard not to feel a tingle on the back of the neck.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\"It is a treat to have a wonderfully erudite scholar determined to instruct and entertain readers. . . . In an historiographical world in which historians are expected to be balanced and practise cool ironic detachment, it is fun to read a book where the writer’s heart is always on his sleeve. Linebaugh gives a marvellous portrait of one of the most interesting periods in British and Irish history, taking the side of the disadvantaged against those who wanted to keep the disadvantaged in their place.\" * English Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRed Round Globe Hot Burning\u003c\/i\u003e is a culmination of Linebaugh’s lifework. . . .impressionistic and multi-layered, an approach…that advances rather than occludes understanding of such a richly overlayered and conflicted world.\" * The European Legacy *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hypnotic and compelling. . . .\u003ci\u003eRed Round\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in evoking the textures and feverish emotional pitch of radicalism in the 1790s, as well as the crushing disappointments of the early nineteenth century.\" * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE • THE QUEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION A • THE QUEST\u003cbr\u003e 1 • The Grave of a Woman\u003cbr\u003e 2 • Quest for the Commons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION B • THANATOCRACY\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Despard at the Gallows\u003cbr\u003e 4 • Gallows Humor and the Gibbets of Civilization\u003cbr\u003e 5 • Apples from the Green Tree of Liberty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION C • UNDERGROUND\u003cbr\u003e 6 • The Anthropocene and the Stages of History\u003cbr\u003e 7 • E. P. Thompson and the Irish Commons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO • ATLANTIC MOUNTAINS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION D • IRELAND\u003cbr\u003e 8 • Habendum and the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy\u003cbr\u003e 9 • Hotchpot, or Celtic Communism\u003cbr\u003e 10 • “That’s True Anyhow”\u003cbr\u003e 11 • A Boy amid the Whiteboys\u003cbr\u003e 12 • The Same Cont.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION E • AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e 13 • America! Utopia! Equality! Crap.\u003cbr\u003e 14 • Cooperation and Survival in Jamaica\u003cbr\u003e 15 • Nicaragua and the Miskito Commons\u003cbr\u003e 16 • Honduras and the Mayan Commons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION F • HAITI\u003cbr\u003e 17 • Haiti and Thelwall\u003cbr\u003e 18 • Ireland and Volney\u003cbr\u003e 19 • A Spot in Time\u003cbr\u003e 20 • Their Son\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION G • ENGLAND\u003cbr\u003e 21 • “A System of Man-Eaters”\u003cbr\u003e 22 • The Goose and the Commons, c. 1802\u003cbr\u003e 23 • “The Den of Thieves”\u003cbr\u003e 24 • Commons or True Commons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE • LOVE AND STRUGGLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION H • THE \"BUSINESS\"\u003cbr\u003e 25 • “The Business”\u003cbr\u003e 26 • The Kiss of Love and Equalization\u003cbr\u003e 27 • Criminalization in the Labor Process\u003cbr\u003e 28 • Irish Labor, English Coal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION I • PRISON\u003cbr\u003e 29 • In Debt in Prison\u003cbr\u003e 30 • In Prison without a Spoon: The Commons of the Meal\u003cbr\u003e 31 • Rackets in King’s Bench Prison: The Commons of Play\u003cbr\u003e 32 • Catherine Despard Confronts the Penitentiary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECTION J • TWO STORIES\u003cbr\u003e 33 • “The Whole Business of Man”\u003cbr\u003e 34 • The Red Cap of Liberty\u003cbr\u003e 35 • The Red-Crested Bird and Black Duck\u003cbr\u003e 36 • What Is the Human Race?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402911555927,"sku":"9780520299467","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520299467.jpg?v=1730481821","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/red-round-globe-hot-burning-9780520299467","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}