Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12 in Bloomington, MN

Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary
tour de force
, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity.