Opening a symposium on Robin Blackburn’s The Reckoning, a probing examination of political agents and structuring conditions behind the late overthrow of slavery in the American South, Cuba and Brazil ...

How should Blackburn’s slavery quintet be situated in relation to shifting historiographical paradigms of the Atlantic World, from the voyages of discovery to the age of Anglo-American predominance?

Responding to his interlocutors in NLR’s symposium, Blackburn foregrounds the contradictions of capital and political rule in the Atlantic slave systems that opened space for class struggle.

What questions for critical social theory are posed by the capitalist slave regimes of the Americas? An inquiry into the political, economic and social-reproductive dimensions of enslaved and ‘doubly ...

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This now seems a long time ago. Contemporary art appears more often to mimic than resist the strategies of business conglomerates, searching for ever newer ways to recycle the same ‘content’ in ...

Coveted in the late 19th century by Russian Tsar and British Viceroy alike, Afghanistan’s impassible fastnesses enabled it to avoid occupation by either colonial power. Two British invasions were ...

Writing in 1992 – in an essay that essentially relaunched Pritchard’s reputation – Young wondered why his work was never mentioned, ‘especially odd given that The Matrix was published during the ...

Child of my winter, born When the new fallen soldiers froze In Asia’s steep ravines and fouled the snows, When I was torn By love I could not still, By fear that silenced my cramped mind To that cold ...

The biography, which was so little assessed as a text in the ‘quality’ press, has many solid virtues. Inglis had access to a wide range of what he calls ‘dramatis personae’ and also to some really ...