Brian Sexton: 2 books

The recession of 2008-2009 contributed to record job loss and the rise in long-term unemployment in the US. This book examines the impact of long-term unemployment on the economy and the country and puts forth a proposal to alleviate it through a Federal internship program for the unemployed.

Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.   In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations,...