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  • Peasants and Capital

    Dominica in the World Economy

    by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Schuyler Esprit ...
    Series series Classics in Ethnographic Theory
    A new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s influential ethnography of a village in Dominica.Over thirty-five years ago, Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s debut ethnography, Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy, dared to regard peasants not as vestiges of premodern economies but as instrumental to, and integrated in, a capitalist world system. Combining historical ethnography with an intimate ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Wealth, Poverty and Politics

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Natural Experiments of History

    by Jared Diamond ...
    In eight case studies by leading scholars in history, archaeology, business, economics, geography, and political science, the authors showcase the “natural experiment” or “comparative method”—well-known in any science concerned with the past—on the discipline of human history. That means, according to the editors, “comparing, preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses, different ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Insatiable Machine

    How Capitalism Conquered the World

    by Trevor Jackson ...
    A concise, colorful, and convincing account of capitalism’s rise to global dominance.Today, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism—it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the world around us reveals that things can’t stay this way forever: an economy built on infinite amassing and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Decolonial Marxism

    Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

    by Walter Rodney ...
    **"Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa."–Professor Winston McGowanA previously unpublished collection of Walter Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era**Early in life, Walter Rodney became a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Africonomics

    A History of Western Ignorance

    by Bronwen Everill ...
    A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of CambridgeFor centuries, Westerners have tried to “fix” African economies. From the abolition of slavery onward, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists, and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

    by Martin A. Klein, Jan Hogendorn ...
    Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them.Among the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    by Rebecca Shumway ...
    The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente cloth-global symbols of African culture and pride ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • 33 Lessons on Capital

    Reading Marx Politically

    by Harry Cleaver ...
    This book provides an up-to-date reading of Capital Volume I, emphasizing the relevance of Marx's analysis to everyday twenty-first century struggles.Harry Cleaver's treatise outlines and critiques Marx's analysis chapter by chapter. His unique interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value reveals how every theoretical category of Capital designates aspects of class struggle in ways that help us ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cayman Islands in Transition

    The Politics, History and Sociology of a Changing Society

    by J.A. Roy Bodden ...
    'Who is a Caymanian?' 'What should be the nature of the relationship between "established Caymanians" and “expatriate Caymanians" in arriving at a definition?'J.A. (Roy) Bodden argues that Caymanian society is based on a synergistic and symbiotic relationship between expatriates and Caymanians. At the heart of this dilemma of twenty-first-century Caymanian society to define its identity and future ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • The Making of a Periphery

    How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor

    by Ulbe Bosma ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrants from the region working all over the world. How did a prosperous region become a peripheral one?In The Making of a Periphery, Ulbe Bosma draws on ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD