The Magna Carta manifesto : liberties and commons for all / Peter Linebaugh.

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2008.

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Magna Carta.

Civil rights.

Constitutional history -- United States.

1. Introduction

2. Two charters

3. The commodity and the commons

4. Charters lost and found

5. The charters in blackface and whiteface

6. 1776 and Runnamede

7. The law of the jungle

8. Magna Carta and the U. S. Supreme Court

9. Icon and idol

10. This land was made by you and me

11. The constitution of the commons

12. Conclusion.

This book details the ways in which the Great Charter and its companion the Charter of the Forest have been used throughout the world across the centuries.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780520247260

xvi, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm