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9781844675692 | Verso Books, May 9, 2011, cover price $34.95

Paperback:

9781781681060 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, August 6, 2013), cover price $29.95

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Paperback:

9781844677221 | Verso Books, May 16, 2011, cover price $29.95
9780198320265, titled "Julius Caesar" | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $7.95 | also contains Julius Caesar

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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 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.

Hardcover:

9780860911883 | Verso Books, June 1, 1988, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic.

Paperback:

9781844674756, titled "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848: 1776-1848" | Reprint edition (Verso Books, April 18, 2011), cover price $29.95
9780860919018, titled "The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848" | Reprint edition (Verso Books, August 1, 1989), cover price $34.95

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781844676323, titled "The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800" | 2 edition (Verso Books, August 2, 2010), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: 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.
9781859848906 | Verso Books, February 1, 1997, cover price $65.00

Paperback:

9781844676316 | Verso Books, August 2, 2010, cover price $29.95
9781859841952 | Verso Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: Robin Blackburn realiza un crítico examen sobre la crisis fiscal y la corrupción empresarial en una sociedad en proceso de envejecimiento, mientras propone soluciones para un nuevo régimen progresivo de los fondos de pensiones.

Paperback:

9788446027676 | Akal Ediciones Sa, April 30, 2010, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Robin Blackburn realiza un crítico examen sobre la crisis fiscal y la corrupción empresarial en una sociedad en proceso de envejecimiento, mientras propone soluciones para un nuevo régimen progresivo de los fondos de pensiones.

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Product Description: Europe today faces three shocks which threaten its social institutions and aspiration for an independent role in world affairs. They are the shock of rampant United States power, the shock of Anglo-Saxon economics, and the shock of a poorly planned European Union enlargement...read more

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9780851247038 | Ill edition (Spokesman Pr, November 30, 2004), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Europe today faces three shocks which threaten its social institutions and aspiration for an independent role in world affairs.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781859844090 | Verso Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Banking on Death offers a panoramic view of the history and future of pension provision.

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Product Description: 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...read more

Hardcover:

9781859847954 | Verso Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Banking on Death offers a panoramic view of the history and future of pension provision.

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Product Description: Robin Blackburn's poems move through family mythologies, shifts and mysteries. Connections and disintegrations both form and reform the figures depicted. Characters refuse burial. Images of breaking and mending, stories of exile, return and metamorphosis are ruminations on the nature of life, love and living memory in a world of change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781550711547 | 1 edition (Guernica Editions, June 1, 2002), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Robin Blackburn's poems move through family mythologies, shifts and mysteries.

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Book by Blackburn, Robin
By Robin Blackburn (editor)

Hardcover:

9780860913207 | Verso Books, January 1, 1992, cover price $59.95

Paperback:

9780860915409 | Verso Books, January 1, 1992, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Book by Blackburn, Robin

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