Robin Blackburn (Author of The Making of New World Slavery)

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Robin Blackburn's Blog

Robin Blackburn isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

1493 by Charles C Mann – review

A lively account of how Columbus's voyage changed history

The first attempts at world history too often had a bland textbook feel, or were bee-in-the-bonnet chronicles that reduced history to the impact of a single factor. Such approaches have been challenged by Niall Ferguson's snappy, opinionated, made-for-TV narratives, in which the rest of the world is taken to task for its tardiness in adop...

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Books by Robin Blackburn

Average rating: 3.46 · 59 ratings · 10 reviews · 27 distinct works

	The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 3.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln by Robin Blackburn (Introduction), Karl Marx, Raya Dunaevskaya (Contributor) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Banking on Death: Or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Age Shock: How Finance Is Failing Us 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Revolution And Class Struggle: A Reader In Marxist Politics 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: