Red round globe hot burning : a Tale at the Crossroads of the Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard

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 extraordinary narrative recovers the death-defying heroism of extended networks of underground resisters fighting against privatization of the commons accomplished by two new political entities, the U.S.A. and the U.K., that we now know would dispossess people around the world through today. __Red Round Globe Hot Burning__ is the culmination of a lifetime of research—encapsulated through an epic tale of love. Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part One: The quest Section A: the quest 1. The Grave of a Woman 2. Quest for the Commons Section B: Thanatocracy 3. Despard at the Gallows 4. Gallows Humor and the Gibbets of Civilization 5. Apples from the Green Tree of Liberty Section C: Underground 6. The Anthropocene and the Stages of History 7. E. P. Thompson and the Irish Commons Part Two: Atlantic Mountains Section D: Ireland 8. Habendum and the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy 9. Hotchpot, or Celtic Communism 10. “That’s True Anyhow” 11. A Boy amid the Whiteboys 12. The Same Cont. Section E: America 13. America! Utopia! Equality! Crap 14. Cooperation and Survival in Jamaica 15. Nicaragua and the Miskito Commons 16. Honduras and the Mayan Commons Section F: Haiti 17. Haiti and Thelwall 18. Ireland and Volney 19. A Spot in Time 20. Their Son Section G: England 21. “A System of Man-Eaters” 22. The Goose and the Commons, c. 1802 23. “The Den of Thieves” 24. Commons or True Commons Part Three: Love and Struggle Section H: The “business” 25. “The Business” 26. The Kiss of Love and Equalization 27. Criminalization in the Labor Process 28. Irish Labor, English Coal Section I: Prison 29. In Debt in Prison 30. In Prison without a Spoon: The Commons of the Meal 31. Rackets in King’s Bench Prison: The Commons of Play 32. Catherine Despard Confronts the Penitentiary Section J: Two Stories 33. “The Whole Business of Man” 34. The Red Cap of Liberty 35. The Red-Crested Bird and Black Duck 36. What Is the Human Race? Works Cited Index 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 extraordinary narrative recovers the death-defying heroism of extended networks of underground resisters fighting against privatization of the commons accomplished by two new political entities, the U.S.A. and the U.K., that we now know would dispossess people around the world through today. Red Round Globe Hot Burning is the culmination of a lifetime of research—encapsulated through an epic tale of love. "Red Round Globe Hot Burning tells the story of an Irish revolutionary, Edward Despard, and his wife, Catherine, an Afro-American abolitionist, in their efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to maintain the commons against attempts to enclose and privatize its land and resources. Their story takes the form of a quest, or two related searches for a woman and for the commons. The story begins in Ireland, joins them at first in Jamaica and then in central America, before returning to London and their final struggle on behalf of "the principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice." He attempted to organize an insurrection, she succeeded in halting the construction of the panopticon. His defeat at the gallows and hers in anonymous exile were part of a turning point in the history of the earth and the commencement of the anthropocene"--Provided by publisher.