"While it is nearly impossible to convey the flow of subjects embodied in Red Round Globe Hot Burning , the sweep of interracial history, the place of seemingly ordinary people in challenging the very basis of class society, will be understood better by those reading this worthy volume."

“Peter Linebaugh has produced another masterful history ‘from below' . . . . In language that is sometimes visceral, imaginative and often sublimely eloquent he analyses the conditions in which people were living and working, making connections, while leaving the reader with a global overview of the struggle against colonial and imperial power.” —Socialist Review

“Once more, Peter Linebaugh highlights uncomfortable truths.” —Monthly Review

“An erudite work by a scholar who adapted classic ‘history from below’ to more diverse subjects, while integrating environmental history and literary studies . . . Red Round Globe Hot Burning will hold the interest of a wide array of historians. The vignettes collected in the book display the burning power of ideas in a period of tumultuous change.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“Red Round Globe Hot Burning is [Linebaugh's] greatest masterpiece yet in a lifetime of triumphs. It is a mind-blowing contribution to his lifelong quest for the commons. . . . You have a writer of such extraordinary power that reading him can move you to tears (and will always lift your spirits).” —Independent Left

"A live, immediate, textured portrait." —World History Connected

“Far-ranging and fascinating. . . . It is impossible to summarize briefly the enormously rich content of this work.” —Fifth Estate

“This wide-ranging, intricate, penetrating analysis of the developing process of enclosure and exploitation during a critical era of the development of capitalism in the Atlantic world, and the manifold modes of popular resistance, provides fascinating insight into the origins of our society, with rich implications for addressing its crimes and its current race to destruction.”—Noam Chomsky“It’s often assumed that superb scholarship and beautiful writing are rival forces, but in Peter Linebaugh’s work they are the same tremendous force evoking and contextualizing moments of crisis and possibility in the past with a vividness that casts new light on our own time.”—Rebecca Solnit, author of“Poetic and moving,shows what history can do. This is the work of a historian of genius, rich in detail, powerfully written, and animated by a passion for justice.”—Silvia Federici, author of"A remarkable tour de force of eloquence and erudition, Peter Linebaugh's new book brilliantly recovers the popular-democratic histories of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, tracking them back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea. Histories of capitalist modernity, he shows, are inseparable from the courageous creativity of the popular struggles whose defeats enabled them."—Geoff Eley, author of“Peter Linebaugh is the best, most creative, most original historian living today.can be seen as a distillation of his life’s work. This is a window on the 600-year struggle over the commons that has a lot to say about our current times. Writing in prose that channels the poetry of William Blake in every sentence, this may be his most innovative book, yet.”—Robin Kelley, author of