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 freedom, of humanity, and of justice will triumph over falsehood, tyranny, and delusion.¿ ¿And yet the world turned. From the connected events of the American, French, Haitian, and failed Irish Revolutions, to the Anthropocene¿s birth amidst enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory machine production,¿Red Round Globe Hot Burning¿throws readers into¿the¿pivotal moment of the last two millennia. This monumental history, packed with a wealth of detail, presents a comprehensive chronicle of the resistance to the demise of communal regimes. Peter Linebaugh¿s extraord
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In this tour de force, celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed that has not...
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Focuses on the state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny - and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture - are abridged. This book demonstrates how these ancient rights...
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These lifelike round bales cannot be missing on your farm. You can resell the bales or use them as feed for the animals on your farm. This set consists of 4 bales with a scale of 1:32.
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These lifelike round silage bales cannot be missing on your farm. You can easily store the silage bales in one of your sheds to feed the animals on the farm. This set consists of 4 bales with a scale of 1:32.
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