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  • The American Crucible

    Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights

    by Robin Blackburn ...
    The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization, silver mining, plantation agriculture, racial enslavement, colonial rebellion, slave witness and slave ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Age Shock

    How Finance is Failing Us

    by Robin Blackburn ...
    Most countries face the future with an ageing population, yet most governments are cutting back on pensions and the care services needed by the elderly. Robin Blackburn exposes the perverse reasoning and special interests which have combined to produce this nonsensical state of affairs. This updated paperback edition of Age Shock includes a new preface explaining why the credit crunch and eurozone ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century

    by José Antonio Piqueras, Anthony E. Kaye, Rafael Marquese, Ricardo Salles, Dale Tomich, Robin Blackburn ...
    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, ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Reckoning

    From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888

    by Robin Blackburn ...
    **"Tremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best."—Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave ShipA history of 19th century slavery in the US, Brazil and Cuba from a critically acclaimed historian of slavery in the Americas**The Reckoning offers the first rounded account of the rise and fall of the Second Slavery—largescale plantation slavery in nineteenth ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Shining Fragments

    by McBride Robin Blackburn ...
    Series Book 151 - Essential Prose
    A heartbreaking arrival in a new country. Thrust too early into adulthood. Will he survive Canada's turbulent streets?Toronto, 1882. Joseph Conlon has never felt more alone. Parentless after his mother dies on the voyage from Ireland, the frightened eight-year-old witnesses his sister's abduction and is abandoned at the train station. But once he's placed in a Catholic orphanage, Joseph discovers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Businesses Need To Know Right Now

    Lessons Learned From Interviewing Businesses During a Pandemic

    by Nettie Owens ...
    Series series Sagacity Series - Expert Interviews with Top Business Leaders
    When you need advice for what is happening in the world right now as it affects your business, you don't have time to take a course and become the expert. You need to tap into the knowledge of those who have already figured out the next steps.This compilation of interviews was taken in the first 6 months of the pandemic when the world was both at a standstill and changing moment to moment. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • An Unfinished Revolution

    Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln

    by Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Raya Dunaevskaya, Friedrich Engels ...
    Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War, with Marx writing on behalf of the International Working Men’s Association. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the urgency of suppressing slavery and the cause of “free labor.” In his introduction Robin Blackburn argues that Lincoln’s response to the IWA was a sign of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • In the Aftermath

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    by Jane Ward ...
    When David Herron—overwhelmed and despairing, his family’s business and finances in ruin due to the bursting lending bubble of 2008—takes his own life one chilly spring morning, he has no idea the ripple effect his decision will set into motion.Two years later, his widow, Jules, is now an employee of the bakery she and David used to own—and still full of bitterness over David’s lies, perceived ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Light Beyond the Trenches

    A WW1 Novel of Betrayal and Resilience

    by Alan Hlad ...
    From the USA Today bestselling author of Churchill’s Secret Messenger comes a WWI novel based on little-known history, as four very different lives intertwine across Europe from Germany to France—a German Red Cross nurse, a Jewish pianist blinded on the battlefield, a soldier tortured by deadly secrets of his own, and his tormented French mistress. This life-affirming tale of heroism and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What They Didn't Burn

    Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets

    by Mel Laytner ...
    What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or thought you knew?Growing up, author Mel Laytner saw his father as a quintessential Type B: passive and conventional. As he uncovered documents the Nazis didn’t burn, however, another man emerged—a black market ringleader and wily camp survivor who made ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Girl on the Carpathia - A novel of the Titanic

    by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts ...
    SELECTED FOR THE FRONT PAGE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY MARCH 20 EDITION"SOS TITANIC TO ALL SHIPS. SINKING HEAD DOWN 41.46 N 50.14 W. COME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE"North Atlantic Ocean, 1912. Kate Royston is a witness to history as the RMS Carpathia responds to the Titanic's desperate SOS. Kate plans to escape personal tragedy by fleeing to Europe but everything changes when the Carpathia races to save the <e ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Wire

    by James D. Shipman ...
    From the bestselling author of Irena’s War comes a gripping novel of historical fiction based on one of the most extraordinary true stories of World War II—an uprising behind the walls of Auschwitz concentration camp.October 1944: In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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