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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 Peter Linebaugh university of california press Red Round Globe Hot Burning 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 Peter Linebaugh university of california press University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2019 by Peter Linebaugh Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Linebaugh, Peter, author. Title: 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. Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifi ers: lccn 2018028780 (print) | lccn 2018032370 (ebook) | isbn 9780520971189 (Epub) | isbn 9780520299467 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Commons—History—18th century. | Public lands—18th century. | Despard, Edward Marcus, 1751–1803. | Despard, Catherine. Classifi cation: lcc hd1286 (ebook) | lcc hd1286 .l56 2019 (print) | ddc 941.07/30922 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018028780 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Michaela Brennan Omnia Sunt Communia. Peasants Revolt, 1525 Let us haif the bukis necessare To commoun weill. david lyndsay, 1481–1555 Let us fi nally imagine, for a change, an association of free people, working with the means of production held in common. karl marx, Capital, 1867. It is already a big part of the earth and it will come. To own everything in common. Th at’s what the Bible says. Common means all of us. Th is is old commonism. woody guthrie, 1941 contents Acknowledgments xi Foreword xvii Introduction 1 part one the quest 15 • section a • the quest 17 1 Th e Grave of a Woman 19 • 2 Quest for the Commons 25 • section b • thanatocracy 33 3 Despard at the Gallows 35 • 4 Gallows Humor and the Gibbets of Civilization 44 • 5 Apples from the Green Tree of Liberty 55 • section c • underground 67 6 Th e Anthropocene and the Stages of History 69 • 7 E. P. Th ompson and the Irish Commons 81 • part two atlantic mountains 89 • section d • ireland 91 8 Habendum and the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy 93 • 9 Hotchpot, or Celtic Communism 104 • 10 “Th at’s True Anyhow” 116 • 11 A Boy amid the Whiteboys 121 • 12 Th e Same Cont. 127 • section e • america 135 13 America! Utopia! Equality! Crap. 137 • 14 Cooperation and Survival in Jamaica 146 • 15 Nicaragua and the Miskito Commons 154 • 16 Honduras and the Mayan Commons 165 • section f • haiti 177 17 Haiti and Th elwall 179 • 18 Ireland and Volney 193 • 19 A Spot in Time 204 • 20 Th eir Son 209 • section g • england 223 21 “A System of Man-Eaters” 225 • 22 Th e Goose and the Commons, c. 1802 238 • 23 “Th e Den of Th ieves” 247 • 24 Commons or True Commons 261 • part three love and struggle 279 • section h • the “business” 281 25 “Th e Business” 283 • 26 Th e Kiss of Love and Equalization 292 • 27 Criminalization in the Labor Process 301 • 28 Irish Labor, English Coal 317 • section i • prison 325 29 In Debt in Prison 327 • 30 In Prison without a Spoon: Th e Commons of the Meal 339 • 31 Rackets in King’s Bench Prison: Th e Commons of Play 345 • 32 Catherine Despard Confronts the Penitentiary 355 • section j • two stories 375 33 “Th e Whole Business of Man” 377 • 34 Th e Red Cap of Liberty 384 • 35 Th e Red-Crested Bird and Black Duck 396 • 36 What Is the Human Race? 406 • Works Cited 423 Index 449
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