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 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter Linebaugh, David Lloyd (Foreword by)Publish date:2021-02-23Pages:486
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520383036ISBN-10:520383036UPC:9780520383036Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Modern, Military, HistoricalBook Topic:18th Century, Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSize:8.70 x 5.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC0A05TGE4
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520383036ISBN-10:520383036UPC:9780520383036Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Modern, Military, HistoricalBook Topic:18th Century, Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceSize:8.70 x 5.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC0A05TGE4
Peter Linebaugh is an historian and the author of The London Hanged, The Magna Carta Manifesto, The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day, and Stop, Thief!, and the coauthor, with Marcus Rediker, of The Many-Headed Hydra. His articles have appeared in publications that include CounterPunch, the New Left Review, and Radical History Review.
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