There is not a more important historian living today. Period. " Robin D. G. Kelley, "author," Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination""

" "E. P. Thompson, you may rest now. "Linebaugh" restores the dignity of the despised luddites with a poetic grace worthy of the master. " Mike Davis, "author," Planet of Slums""

Ideas can be beautiful too, and the ideas "Peter Linebaugh "provokes and maps in this history of liberty are dazzling reminders of what we have been and who we could be. " Rebecca Solnit, "author," Storming the Gates of Paradise""

"Written to mark May Day, the international workers holiday, Linebaugh s 11 playful and elegiac treatises motivate, enrage, and inform." "Publishers Weekly""

Peter Linebaughis a historian and a professor at the University of Toledo. He is the author of "The London Hanged," "The Magna Carta Manifesto," and "Stop, Thief!," and the coauthor of"Albion s Fatal Tree"and"The Many Headed Hydra." His articles have appeared in publications that include"CounterPunch," the"New Left Review," "New York University Law Review," "Radical History Review," and"Social History." He lives in Toledo, Ohio."