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Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover): Dale Tomich Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Dale Tomich; Contributions by Jose Antonio Piqueras, Anthony E. Kaye, Rafael Marquese, Ricardo Salles, …
R2,474 Discovery Miles 24 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery from the perspective of the "second slavery." The concept of the second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional narratives of slavery by emphasizing the expansion of reconfigured slaveries in extensive new zones of commodity production in Brazil, Cuba and the US South as part of world-economic processes of decolonization, industrialization, urbanization, and the creation of mass markets. Thus, slavery was not a moribund institution. Capitalist modernity, liberal ideology, and anti-slavery from above or from below, faced a vigorous foe that operated within the very economic, political, and cultural premises of the changing 19th century world. This perspective offers an original approach to the history of slavery. It has opened up vigorous debates over slavery and anti-slavery, Atlantic history and capitalism. An international group of scholars critically engage older traditions of scholarship on Atlantic history, the economic history of slavery, and the history of slavery in Cuba, Brazil, and the United States from the perspective of the second slavery. Each chapter reinterprets its subject matter in a way that opens out to dialogue between national historiographies and to a reformulation of Atlantic and world-economic history. This collection of essays contributes to the development of a more productive conceptual framework for the reconstruction and reinterpretation of the historical relation of slavery and world capitalism during the nineteenth century.

The Reckoning - From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 (Hardcover): Robin Blackburn The Reckoning - From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888 (Hardcover)
Robin Blackburn
R1,059 R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Save R174 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery - largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, Cuba and the US South. Robin Blackburn shows how a fusion of industrial capitalism and transatlantic war and revolution turbo-charged racial oppression and the westwards expansion of the United States. Blackburn identifies the new territories, new victims and new battle cries of the Second Slavery. He emphasises the role of financial credit in the spread of plantation agriculture, traces the connections between slavery and the US Civil War, and asks why Brazil threw off Portuguese rule whereas Cuba became one of imperial Spain's final outposts. The Second Slavery faced a fearful reckoning in the 1860s and after when the supposedly invincible Slave Power was defied by extraordinary cross-class, international and interracial alliances. Blackburn narrates the abolitionists' difficult victory over the enslavers, while documenting the racial backlash which brought on Jim Crow and cheated the freedmen and freedwomen of the fruits of their struggle."

What Businesses Need To Know Right Now - Lessons Learned From Interviewing Businesses During a Pandemic (Paperback): Nettie... What Businesses Need To Know Right Now - Lessons Learned From Interviewing Businesses During a Pandemic (Paperback)
Nettie Owens; Edited by Robin Blackburn
R455 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R64 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What Businesses Need to Know Right Now Volume 2 (Paperback): Cpo-Cd(r) Nettie Owens What Businesses Need to Know Right Now Volume 2 (Paperback)
Cpo-Cd(r) Nettie Owens; Edited by Robin Blackburn
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Birdlight - Freeing Your Authentic Creativity (Paperback): Robin Blackburn McBride Birdlight - Freeing Your Authentic Creativity (Paperback)
Robin Blackburn McBride
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Class, Sex and Revolutions - Goran Therborn - A Critical Appraisal (Paperback): Gunnar Olofsson, Sven Hort Class, Sex and Revolutions - Goran Therborn - A Critical Appraisal (Paperback)
Gunnar Olofsson, Sven Hort; Introduction by Robin Blackburn
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Unfinished Revolution - Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln (Paperback): Robin Blackburn An Unfinished Revolution - Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
Robin Blackburn; Contributions by Abraham Lincoln, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Raya Dunaevskaya
R716 R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Save R87 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the cause of free labor and the urgent need to end slavery. In his introduction, Robin Blackburn argues that Lincoln s response signaled the importance of the German American community and the role of the international communists in opposing European recognition of the Confederacy. The ideals of communism, voiced through the International Working Men s Association, attracted many thousands of supporters throughout the US, and helped spread the demand for an eight-hour day. Blackburn shows how the IWA in America born out of the Civil War sought to radicalize Lincoln s unfinished revolution and to advance the rights of labor, uniting black and white, men and women, native and foreign-born. The International contributed to a profound critique of the capitalist robber barons who enriched themselves during and after the war, and it inspired an extraordinary series of strikes and class struggles in the postwar decades. In addition to a range of key texts and letters by both Lincoln and Marx, this book includes articles from the radical New York-based journal Woodhull and Claflin s Weekly, an extract from Thomas Fortune s classic work on racism Black and White, Frederick Engels on the progress of US labor in the 1880s, and Lucy Parson s speech at the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.

The Making of New World Slavery - From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (Paperback, 2nd edition): Robin Blackburn The Making of New World Slavery - From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Robin Blackburn
R1,059 R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Save R131 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought successfully to feed upon this commerce and with markedly less success to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West. The Verso World History Series This series provides attractive new editions of classic works of history, making landmark texts available to a new generation of readers. Covering a timespan stretching from Ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth century, and with a global geographical range, the series will also include thematic volumes providing insights into such topics as the spread of print cultures and the history of money.

After the Fall - The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism (Paperback, New): Robin Blackburn After the Fall - The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism (Paperback, New)
Robin Blackburn; Contributions by Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, E. P Thompson, Eduardo Galeano, …
R875 R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Save R107 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The fall of Communism has been an epoch-making event. The distinguished contributors to After the Fall explain to us the meaning of Communism's meteoric trajectory - and explore the rational grounds for socialist endeavour and commitment in a world which remains dangerous and divided. The contributors include the Italian political philosopher Norberto Bobbio, the British historian Eric Hobsbawm, the French economist Andre Gorz, and the German social theorist Jurgen Habermas. Eduardo Galeano explains how the now world looks from the South, Diane Elson explores how the market might be socialized, Ralph Miliband writes on the harshness of Leninism, Hans Magnus Enzenberger argues that the capitalist 'bad fairy' granted the Left's wishes in disconcerting ways. Lynne Segal looking at the condition of women sees no reason to abandon her libertarian, feminist and socialist convictions, while Maxine Molyneux considers the implications for women of the fall of Communism. Giovanni Arrighi asks whether Marxism understood the 'American Century', Fredric Jameson pursues a conversation on the new world order, Ivan Szelenyi explains who will be the new rulers of Eastern Europe, and Robin Blackburn reflects on the history of socialist programmes, with the benefit of hindsight. Fred Halliday and Edward Thompson disagree about how Communism ended but share worries about what is in store for the post-Communist countries. Alexander Cockburn regrets the death of the Soviet Union. And Goeran Therborn eloquent proves that it is still possible to imagine a future beyond capitalism... and beyond socialism?

Resources of Hope - Culture, Democracy, Socialism (Paperback): Robin Gable Resources of Hope - Culture, Democracy, Socialism (Paperback)
Robin Gable; Raymond Williams; Introduction by Robin Blackburn
R762 R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain's foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life's work represents a patient, exemplary commitment to the building of a socialist future. This book brings together important early writings including "Culture is Ordinary," "The British Left," "Welsh Culture" and "Why Do I Demonstrate?" with major essays and talks of the last decade. It includes work on such central themes as the nature of a democratic culture, the value of community, Green socialism, the nuclear threat, and the relation between the state and the arts. Here too, collected for the first time, are the important later political essays which undertake a thorough revaluation of the principles fundamental to the idea of socialist democracy, and confirm Williams as a shrewd and imaginative political theorist. In a sober yet constructive assessment of the possibilities for socialist advance, Williams-in the face of much recent intellectual fashion-powerfully reasserts his lifelong commitment to "making hope practical, rather than despair convincing." This valuable collection confirms Raymond Williams as a thinker of rare versatility and one of the outstanding intellectuals of our century.

The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery - 1776-1848 (Paperback, 2nd edition): Robin Blackburn The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery - 1776-1848 (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Robin Blackburn
R1,157 R1,002 Discovery Miles 10 020 Save R155 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger and indigo craved by Europeans. By 1848 the major systems of colonial slavery had been swept away either by independence movements, slave revolts, abolitionists or some combination of all three. How did this happen? Robin Blackburn's history captures the complexity of a revolutionary age in a compelling narrative. In some cases colonial rule fell while slavery flourished, as happened in the South of the United States and in Brazil; elsewhere slavery ended but colonial rule remained, as in the British West Indies and French Windwards. But in French St. Domingue, the future Haiti, and in Spanish South and Central America both colonialism and slavery were defeated. This story of slave liberation and American independence highlights the pivotal role of the "first emancipation" in the French Antilles in the 1790s, the parallel actions of slave resistance and metropolitan abolitionism, and the contradictory implications of slaveholder patriotism. The dramatic events of this epoch are examined from an unexpected vantage point, showing how the torch of anti-slavery passed from the medieval communes to dissident Quakers, from African maroons to radical pirates, from Granville Sharp and Ottabah Cuguano to Toussaint L'Ouverture, from the black Jacobins to the Liberators of South America, and from the African Baptists in Jamaica to the Revolutionaries of 1848 in Europe and the Caribbean.

The American Crucible - Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Robin Blackburn The American Crucible - Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Robin Blackburn
R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this "peculiar institution" and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, in the United States in the 1860s and Brazil in the 1880s. Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement helped forge the political and social ideals we live by today.

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