I love Peter Linebaugh's The London Hanged, which is perhaps the only really EP Thompsonesque book to follow very closely but imaginatively in the path the EPT indicated for modern history.
However David Brion Davis really took apart at the joints Linebaugh's co-authored book on the trans-Atlantic shipping economy, class struggle, and the slave trade. I am very much more inclined to be sympathetic to Linebaugh than to Davis, but you should read his NYRB demolition of that book, which I use to have but the title of which escapes me. The Many Headed Beast or something like that. I am no expert in the field, but unless Davis is just lying that work was a real disaster. Linebaugh is even crankier than Thompson -- I have an exceedingly cranky response from ETP to a historical materialist (as I saw it) critique I made of his "exterminism" theory of the cold war from back in the early 80s --so it should be interesting to hear what Linebaugh has to say about Davis.
Nonetheless I am eager to read anything Linebaugh writes, and Magna Carta is especially topical these days, since it is being trashed.
In a note to my Evidence class I quoted in Latin and modern English the provision on trial by a jury of one's peers, since the students are becoming lawyers they should be exposed to some Latin.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
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> > Martin Wolf (FT), who -- I believe -- is somewhat
> sensitive to the
> > broader interests of "global finance" makes a
> rather distressed
> > exhortation for those countries to decouple.
>
> By the way, I recorded an interview with him this
> morning which I'll
> run on the radio tomorrow - along with Peter
> Linebaugh, talking about
> his new book on the Magna Carta.
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