Peter Linebaugh

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Peter Linebaugh is a scholar working on Anthropology, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Linebaugh has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Anthropology, 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Linebaugh's work include Colonialism, slavery, and trade (11 papers), Historical Economic and Social Studies (9 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (3 papers). Peter Linebaugh is often cited by papers focused on Colonialism, slavery, and trade (11 papers), Historical Economic and Social Studies (9 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (3 papers). Peter Linebaugh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Peter Linebaugh's co-authors include Marcus Rediker, Kenneth Maxwell, E. P. Thompson, Cal Winslow, Douglas Hay, John Rule, Ian Taylor, Deborah Valenze, John Stevenson and Peter H. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Foreign Affairs and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Peter Linebaugh

39 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
    2001 545 citations Kenneth Maxwell, Peter Linebaugh et al. Foreign Affairs profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Peter Linebaugh 872 415 353 240 230 46 1.8k
Michael Kämmen 725 0.8× 195 0.5× 450 1.3× 166 0.7× 292 1.3× 131 1.8k
David Cannadine 851 1.0× 284 0.7× 331 0.9× 323 1.3× 415 1.8× 73 1.7k
Perry Anderson 1.3k 1.5× 208 0.5× 824 2.3× 335 1.4× 238 1.0× 79 2.4k
Lynn Hunt 1.2k 1.4× 317 0.8× 627 1.8× 214 0.9× 687 3.0× 102 2.6k
Jonathan Parry 1.2k 1.3× 749 1.8× 580 1.6× 222 0.9× 147 0.6× 59 2.3k
Arthur Goldhammer 878 1.0× 189 0.5× 619 1.8× 194 0.8× 406 1.8× 80 2.1k
Elizabeth Jelín 1.2k 1.3× 153 0.4× 476 1.3× 73 0.3× 154 0.7× 118 1.9k
Ranajit Guha 1.6k 1.8× 990 2.4× 1.0k 2.9× 180 0.8× 158 0.7× 41 3.1k
Raphael Samuel 912 1.0× 275 0.7× 237 0.7× 181 0.8× 329 1.4× 50 1.9k
Eugen Weber 1.4k 1.6× 294 0.7× 953 2.7× 198 0.8× 506 2.2× 101 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Linebaugh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Linebaugh

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Linebaugh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Linebaugh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Linebaugh based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Peter Linebaugh. Peter Linebaugh is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Linebaugh, Peter. (2024). Palestine and the Commons. Journal of World-Systems Research. 30(1). 499–513. 1 indexed citations
2.
Linebaugh, Peter. (2019). Red Round Globe Hot Burning. 4 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter. (2019). Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard. 6 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter, et al.. (2018). YPSILANTI – VAMPIROS RONDAM O DIA DO TRABALHO. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 22(2). 331–369. 1 indexed citations
5.
Linebaugh, Peter & Marcus Rediker. (2008). The Many-Headed Hydra.. Multitudes. n° 33(2). 63–69. 38 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter. (2008). The Magna Carta Manifesto. 338 indexed citations
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Linden, Marcel van der, Peter Linebaugh, & Marcus Rediker. (2003). Labour History as the History of Multitudes. Labour / Le Travail. 52. 235–235. 4 indexed citations
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Mancall, Peter C., Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker, & Alan H. Taylor. (2002). Atlantic Colonies. The New England Quarterly. 75(3). 477–477.
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Linebaugh, Peter, et al.. (2002). The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Journal of American History. 89(1). 202–202. 5 indexed citations
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Maxwell, Kenneth, Peter Linebaugh, & Marcus Rediker. (2001). The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Foreign Affairs. 80(3). 143–143. 545 indexed citations breakdown →
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Linebaugh, Peter. (1997). Gone to Glory: John Merrington. Capital & Class. 166. 1 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter. (1995). Gruesome Gertie at the Buckle of the Bible Belt. New left review. 1(209). 15–33. 7 indexed citations
13.
Linebaugh, Peter & Brian Henry. (1995). Dublin Hanged: Crime, Law Enforcement and Punishment in Late Eighteenth-Century Dublin.. The American Historical Review. 100(5). 1572–1572. 4 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter. (1993). The swing era. TLS, the Times literary supplement/Times literary supplement on CD-ROM/TLS. Times literary supplement. 10. 12 indexed citations
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Palmer, Stanley H. & Peter Linebaugh. (1993). The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. American Journal of Legal History. 37(4). 499–499. 15 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter. (1991). Jubilating; Or, How the Atlantic Working Class Used the Biblical Jubilee against Capitalism, with Some Success. Radical History Review. 1991(50). 143–180. 4 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter. (1986). In the Flight Path of Perry Anderson. History Workshop Journal. 21(1). 141–146. 3 indexed citations
18.
Linebaugh, Peter & John Stevenson. (1983). Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1870. Labour / Le Travail. 11. 321–321. 35 indexed citations
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Linebaugh, Peter, Tony Platt, & Paul Takagi. (1983). Punishment and Penal Discipline: Essays on the Prison and the Prisoners' Movement. Labour / Le Travail. 12. 347–347. 5 indexed citations
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Horwitz, Morton J., Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, et al.. (1977). The Rule of Law: An Unqualified Human Good?. The Yale Law Journal. 86(3). 561–561. 40 indexed citations

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