Peter Linebaugh
Encyclopedia
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history
Labor history
Labor history may refer to:* Labor history , a subfield of the discipline of history**Labor history of the United States, describes the history of organized labor, as well as the more general history of working people, in the United States...
, and the history of the colonial
Colonialism
Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the metropole claims sovereignty over the colony and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by...
Atlantic. He is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.
Education
Linebaugh was a student of noted British labor historian E.P. Thompson, and he received his Ph.D. in British history from the University of WarwickUniversity of Warwick
The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
in 1975. He has taught at University of Rochester
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
, New York University
New York University
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, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Franconia College
Franconia College
Franconia College was a small experimental liberal arts college in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. It opened in 1963 on the site of The Forest Hills Hotel on Agassiz Road, and closed in 1978, after years of declining enrollment and increasing financial difficulties.A small, eclectic...
, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, and Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
. Linebaugh currently teaches at the University of Toledo
University of Toledo
The University of Toledo is a public university in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The Carnegie Foundation classified the university as "Doctoral/Research Extensive."-National recognition:...
, and joined the faculty of that institution in 1994.
Writing
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. KelleyRobin D.G. Kelley
Robin Davis Gibran Kelley is a professor of History and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. From 2003 to 2006 he was the William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia University...
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."
Linebaugh's articles have appeared in New Left Review
New Left Review
New Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...
, the New York University Law Review, Radical History Review
Radical History Review
Radical History Review is a scholarly journal published by Duke University Press.The journal positions itself "at the point where rigorous historical scholarship and active political engagement converge". The Journal addresses "issues of gender, race, sexuality, imperialism, and class, stretching...
, and Social History
Social history
Social history, often called the new social history, is a branch of History that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments...
, and he is a frequent contributor to the online journal CounterPunch
Counterpunch
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.
Personal life
Linebaugh is the father of two daughters, Kate and Riley Linebaugh. He is married to Michaela Brennan.Articles
- “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
- Commonists of the World Unite!
- The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebuagh & Marcus Rediker, 1990
- From the Upper West Side to Wick Episcopi, New Left Review, 1993
- Gruesome Gertie at the Buckle of the Bible Belt, New Left ReviewNew Left ReviewNew Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...
, 1995 - Levelling and 9/11, Counterpunch, 2002
- "An American Tribute to Christopher Hill" at the Counterpunch, May 17, 2003.
- http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh10292005.htmlWho Are the Real Brownshirts in Toledo?, The NationThe NationThe Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
, 2005] - Charters of Liberty in Black Face and White Face: Race, Slavery and the Commons by Peter Linebaugh, Mute Magazine, 2005
- Once Looting was the Pay of Imperial Soldiers, CounterPunchCounterpunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
, 2007 - A People's Penny for the Magna Carta, CounterPunchCounterpunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
, 2007 - The Who and Whom of Liberty Taking, Mute Magazine, 2008
- http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh08142009.htmlThe Commons, the Castle, the Witch and the Lynx, CounterPunchCounterpunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
, 2009] - http://hydrarchy.blogspot.com/2009/09/introduction-to-thomas-paines-common.htmlIntroduction to Thomas PaineThomas PaineThomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
's Common Sense, Rights of Man & Agrarian Justice], 2009 - http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh01082010.html“All For One and One For All!” Some Principles of the Commons, CounterPunchCounterpunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
, 2010] - http://counterpunch.org/linebaugh04302010.htmlMay Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee, CounterPunchCounterpunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
, 2010]
Books
- Linebaugh, Peter. "The London Hanged: crime and civil society in the eighteenth century". 2003
- Linebaugh, Peter and Rediker, Marcus. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001
Video
- Video - Forever Blowing Bubbles: A Walking Tour with Peter Linebaugh and Fabian Tompsett (2008)
- Video - Interview with Peter Linebaugh: The Magna Carta Manifesto (2009)