Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Foreword xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: The quest
7. Section A: the quest
8. 1. The Grave of a Woman 19
9. 2. Quest for the Commons 25
10. Section B: Thanatocracy
11. 3. Despard at the Gallows 35
12. 4. Gallows Humor and the Gibbets of Civilization 44
13. 5. Apples from the Green Tree of Liberty 55
14. Section C: Underground
15. 6. The Anthropocene and the Stages of History 69
16. 7. E. P. Thompson and the Irish Commons 81
17. Part Two: Atlantic Mountains
18. Section D: Ireland
19. 8. Habendum and the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy 93
20. 9. Hotchpot, or Celtic Communism 104
21. 10. “That’s True Anyhow” 116
22. 11. A Boy amid the Whiteboys 121
23. 12. The Same Cont. 127
24. Section E: America
25. 13. America! Utopia! Equality! Crap 137
26. 14. Cooperation and Survival in Jamaica 146
27. 15. Nicaragua and the Miskito Commons 154
28. 16. Honduras and the Mayan Commons 165
29. Section F: Haiti
30. 17. Haiti and Thelwall 179
31. 18. Ireland and Volney 193
32. 19. A Spot in Time 204
33. 20. Their Son 209
34. Section G: England
35. 21. “A System of Man-Eaters” 225
36. 22. The Goose and the Commons, c. 1802 238
37. 23. “The Den of Thieves” 247
38. 24. Commons or True Commons 261
39. Part Three: Love and Struggle
40. Section H: The “business”
41. 25. “The Business” 283
42. 26. The Kiss of Love and Equalization 292
43. 27. Criminalization in the Labor Process 301
44. 28. Irish Labor, English Coal 317
45. Section I: Prison
46. 29. In Debt in Prison 327
47. 30. In Prison without a Spoon: The Commons of the Meal 339
48. 31. Rackets in King’s Bench Prison: The Commons of Play 345
49. 32. Catherine Despard Confronts the Penitentiary 355
50. Section J: Two Stories
51. 33. “The Whole Business of Man” 377
52. 34. The Red Cap of Liberty 384
53. 35. The Red-Crested Bird and Black Duck 396
54. 36. What Is the Human Race? 406
55. Works Cited 423
56. Index 449