Introduction -- The politics of loyalty -- Negotiating freedom -- Responsibility on trial -- Selling scandal : The Mysteries of the Inquisition -- The business of nation building -- Workers of thought -- Criminalizing the printing press -- Conclusion. "During the independence e…
Preface / Joseph L. Love? -- Introduction / Alexandre Mendes Cunha & Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak -- International dissemination of economic ideas -- Political economy and latin american independence from the 19th to the 20th century / Alexandre Mendes Cunha & Carlos Eduardo Supriny…
He dire conditions of the working class -- Visions of a better future -- Dramatizing revolutionary ideals -- Reformist politics -- The influence of the American Federation of Labor -- Conclusion
"In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, Ireland became the object of a vigorous debate concerning the promise and perils of commerce in an era of global war and revolution. This debate concerned not just the identity and future of the Irish polity itself, but of the B…
"Carlos Astarita's From Feudalism to Capitalism: Social and Political Change in Castile and Western Europe, 1250-1520 presents for an English-speaking readership a major intervention in a number of debates in Marxist historiography. The work has four thematic nuclei: the socio-p…
Slavery and the Civil War -- Reconstruction -- The Gilded Age and Jim Crow laws -- The Great Migration, Depression and world wars -- Postwar prosperity and the civil rights movement -- A new Gilded Age and mass incarceration -- Racism rises and America declines.
Prologue : foregrounding the black worker -- Genesis of the black working class -- Building the early community -- Prelude to the modern age -- Rise of the industrial working class -- African American workers organize -- Demolition of the old Jim Crow order -- Demise of the indu…
I. From Marx... -- The problem of social form in Eric Williams's Capitalism and slavery -- Reading capital in the Caribbean: Marx and the nature of capitalist slavery -- II. ...To Black Jacobinism -- The reinvention of social form: the necessity of revolution in C. L. R. James's…
