Robin Sue Blackburn

Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn (born 1940) is a British historian, a former editor of New Left Review (1981-99), an author of essays on the collapse of Soviet Communism, on...

The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights

The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall ofslavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise ofcapitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession offateful experiments in colonization, silve...

The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights

The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall ofslavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise ofcapitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession offateful experiments in colonization, silve...

The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights

The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall ofslavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise ofcapitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession offateful experiments in colonization, silve...

Birdlight: Freeing Your Authentic Creativity

Birdlight: Freeing Your Authentic Creativity is a beacon for readers yearning to live lives of heart-centered, empowered creativity. It’s for those seeking greater alignment with an expanding vision, and a core sense of purpose and authenticity. The book offers a unique perspective: the author relea...

Human Rights and Revolutions

This original and important book examines the paradoxical yet fundamental relationship between revolutions and the discourse of human rights as it has developed over the last four centuries. In a multidisciplinary collection of essays, activists and scholars compare times and places as remote from e...

Debating Cosmopolitics (New Left Review Debates)

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies insist ever more vehemently upon a maintenance of their privileges—freedom of speech, security, wealth—an increasing number of the world’s inhabitants are ...

Banking On Death: Or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions

Banking on Death offers a panoramic view of the history and future of pension provision. A work of unique scope, it traces the origins and development of the pension idea, from the days of the French Revolution to the troubles of the modern welfare state.As we live longer, employers are closing thei...

An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln

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 i...

Ideology in Social Science: Readings in Critical Social Theory

Revolution and Class Struggle: A Reader in Marxist Politics

Revolution and Class Struggle: A Reader in Marxist Politics

Ideology in Social Science: Readings in Critical Social Theory

Ideology in Social Science: Readings in Critical Social Theory

Explosion in the Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Ceylon

Social Europe We Need

The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848