Peter Linebaugh

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Historian Peter Linebaugh

Peter Linebaugh is an American historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic.

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 Warwick in 1975.^[1] He has taught at University of Rochester, New York University, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Harvard University, and Tufts University. Linebaugh currently teaches at the University of Toledo, and joined the faculty of that institution in 1994.^[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. 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.

[edit] 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.