Peter Linebaugh is an American historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic. See also History An historian is an individual who studies and writes about History, and is regarded as an Authority on it The history of the British Isles has witnessed intermittent periods of competition and cooperation between the people that occupy the various parts of Great Britain, The history of Ireland begins with the first known settlement in Ireland around 8000 BC when Hunter-gatherers arrived from Great Britain and continental

Linebaugh was a student of noted British labor historian E.P. Thompson, and he received his Ph. Edward Palmer Thompson ( February 3, 1924, Oxford &ndash August 28, 1993, Worcester) was an English historian D. in British history from the University of Warwick in 1975. The University of Warwick is a British Campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands, England and is ^[1] He has taught at University of Rochester, New York University, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Harvard University, and Tufts University. The University of Rochester ( U of R UR) is a private, nonsectarian Coeducational Research University located in Rochester New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. The University of Massachusetts Boston is a major coeducational public research university located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Linebaugh currently teaches at the University of Toledo, and joined the faculty of that institution in 1994. The University of Toledo is a public University situated in Toledo Ohio. ^[2]

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 offered high praise of the work of Linebaugh, arguing in a book review of The Magna Carta Manifesto (2008) that there is "not a more important historian living today. Robin DG Kelley (born 1962 is a professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Period. "^[3]

Articles by Linebaugh have appeared in such periodicals as The New Left Review, the New York University Law Review, Radical History Review, and Social History, and he is a frequent contributor to the online journal CounterPunch. The New Left Review is a political Journal, founded in 1960 in the UK after the editors of the New Reasoner and the Radical History Review is a scholarly journal published by Social history is an area of historical study considered by some to be a Social science that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing CounterPunch is a biweekly Newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical

Bibliography

• Linebaugh, Peter, Hay, Doug, and Thompson, E. P. (eds. ). Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England. Pantheon Press, 1975.
• Linebaugh, Peter. 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.
• Linebaugh, Peter. The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

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External links

• “Karl Marx, the Theft of Wood and Working Class Composition: A Contribution to the Current Debate” from Crime and Social Justice 6 (Fall-Winter 1976): 5-16

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