The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All

by Peter Linebaugh

Book Overview

This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny--and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture--are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520260007
• ISBN13: 9780520260009
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"