Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the University of Toledo. He is the author of The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century and coauthor (with Marcus Rediker) of Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic.

• Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Two Charters 3. The Commodity and the Commons 4. Charters Lost and Found 5. The Charters in Blackface and Whiteface 6. 1776 and Runnamede 7. The Law of the Jungle 8. Magna Carta and the U.S. Supreme Court 9. Icon and Idol 10. This Land Was Made by You and Me 11. The Constitution of the Commons 12. Conclusion Appendix 1. Magna Carta 2. The Charter of the Forest Glossary Further Reading Index

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