Robin Blackburn: 2 books
Age Shock
How Finance is Failing Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Most countries face the future with an ageing population, yet most governments are cutting back on pensions and the care services needed by the elderly. Robin Blackburn exposes the perverse reasoning and special interests which have combined to produce this nonsensical state of affairs. This updated...
The American Crucible
Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization,...