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Red Round Globe Hot Burning - A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard (Hardcover)
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Red Round Globe Hot Burning - A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard (Hardcover)
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On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was
publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000
for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George
III. His black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write
his gallows speech in which he proclaimed that he was a friend to
the poor and oppressed. He expressed trust that "the principles of
freedom, of humanity, and of justice will triumph over falsehood,
tyranny, and delusion." And yet the world turned. From the
connected events of the American, French, Haitian, and failed Irish
Revolutions, to the Anthropocene's birth amidst enclosures,
war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory
machine production, Red Round Globe Hot Burning throws readers into
the pivotal moment of the last two millennia. This monumental
history, packed with a wealth of detail, presents a comprehensive
chronicle of the resistance to the demise of communal regimes.
Peter Linebaugh's extraordinary narrative recovers the
death-defying heroism of extended networks of underground resisters
fighting against privatization of the commons accomplished by two
new political entities, the U.S.A. and the U.K., that we now know
would dispossess people around the world through today. Red Round
Globe Hot Burning is the culmination of a lifetime of
research-encapsulated through an epic tale of love.
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