Peter Linebaugh is an American

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who specializes in

British history The British Isles have witnessed intermittent periods of competition and cooperation between the people that occupy the various parts of Great Britain, the Isle of Man, Ireland, the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the Bailiwick of Jersey and ...

Irish history The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 33,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of homo sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BC. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Quaterna ...

labor history Labor history or labour history is a sub-discipline of social history which specialises on the history of the working classes and the labor movement. Labor historians may concern themselves with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and other fac ...

, and the history of the

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. He is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.

Early life

Peter Linebaugh was born in 1942 He was a student of British labor historian

E. P. Thompson Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is best known today for his historical work on the radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in ...

, and received his Ph.D. in British history from the

University of Warwick , mottoeng = Mind moves matter , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.0 million (2021) , budget = £698.2 million (2020 ...

in 1975. He has taught at

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, University of Massachusetts–Boston, Franconia College,

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, and

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

. Linebaugh retired from the

University of Toledo The University of Toledo (UToledo or UT) is a public research university in Toledo, Ohio. It is the northernmost campus of the University System of Ohio. The university also operates a Health Science campus, which includes the University of ...

in 2014.

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 Kelley Robin Davis Gibran Kelley (born March 14, 1962) is an American historian and academic, who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA. From 2006 to 2011, he was Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Sout ...

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." In late April 2012, Occupy Ypsilanti published and began to distribute throughout

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, free of charge, Linebaugh's ''Ypsilanti Vampire May Day''. His writing also appears in ''

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'', the ''New York University Law Review'', '' Radical History Review'', and ''

Social History Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

''.

Personal life

Linebaugh is married to Michaela Brennan. He has two daughters, Kate and Riley Linebaugh.

References

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''. London: Allen Lane, 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. *Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811–12'. PM press, 2012. * * ''The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day'', PM Press 2016 SKU: 9781629631073. * ''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.

Books

*''The London Hanged: crime and civil society in the eighteenth century''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic''
(with

Marcus Rediker Marcus Rediker (born 1951 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American professor, historian, writer, and activist for a variety of peace and social justice causes. He graduated with a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976 and attended the U ...

), Boston: Beacon Press, 2001
''The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All''
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