Adapted from The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good by Richard Dienst 🌹

The efforts of Charlemagne Peralte against the US Occupation makes him still celebrated today as one of the great revolutionaries of Haiti's history.

10 Great Economic History Books 1) The Economic Consequences of the US Mobilisation for the Second World War - Alexander J Field A fantastic recent work reassessing the long run growth effects of WW2 on the USA. Interesting implications for growth theory and TFP calculations.

Calling all graduate students, faculty & humanities professionals! Explore the history & development of New York harbor during a weeklong workshop with visiting scholars & waterfront/port tours Apply by March 5th --> t.ly/CyHsS Made possible by National Endowment for the Humanities

Listen in as David Runciman and I begin our march through critical American elections and the ideas that animated them: 1800 today with 1828, 1860, 1896, 1912, 1936, 1980, and 2008 to come in future podcasts. Getting ready for 2024...

This is a must-read. A powerful critique of mainstream economics coming from Angus Deaton, a recent Nobel Prize winner in economics who has spent most of his career within the mainstream. He highlights five major deficiencies of mainstream economics, and they are spot on: the

#onthisday in 1998, 32 years after Mississippi created a segregationist spy agency, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, its long secret records were finally opened to the public. State lawmakers created the agency in 1956 in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education

Book cover for Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America is out! A history of how sin and redemption shaped policies of debt repudiation in the Spanish Empire and modern Latin America (c. 1550s-1907) More info coming soon!

Working hard to get ready for this....

Book Review - The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888 by Robin Blackburn jacobin.com/2024/05/slaver…

So, I’ve been working on two books about the English Revolution. Coming out next month is a book of five essays on Marxism and the English Revolution looking at the post-revisionist landscape of 17th century history. It is available here: counterfire.bigcartel.com/product/marxis… 🧵

Going to dig into the long history of imperialism and enslavement through the considerable work of Robin Blackburn from New Left Review and Verso Books. Good companions for the long journey through Brazil and Colombia that starts today.

I’ve come to appreciate early McCloskey from the adolescent days of clio. This 1994 edited series with Floud is really good. (There’s also a two-volume one from 1981 which I haven’t read.)

I wrote some reflections on state formation and financial revolutions in A̷r̷g̷e̷n̷t̷i̷n̷a̷Latin America, Europe, and the United States…

Bank of North America: “As a result, in scores of petitions, Pennsylvanians complained about lack of access to credit and voiced fears about the emergence of a banking aristocracy.” Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society by Jakob Feinig, 2022

Le Président Emanuel Macron a affirmé aujourd’hui que le départ annoncé des bases françaises aurait été négocié entre les pays africains qui l’ont décrété et la France. Il poursuit en estimant que c’est par simple commodité et par politesse que la France a consenti la primeur

In the latest NLR, a symposium on Robin Blackburn's quintet on slavery in the Atlantic world, featuring Nancy Fraser, John Clegg and Enrico Dal Lago, plus a reply by Blackburn himself: newleftreview.org

Discover how early 19th-century Californian courts contested indigenous identities in "Indigeneity on Trial by a Californio Jury, 1805-1806" by James Bland. 🌍✨ ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/07/ind…

Yesterday, I had a great convo with University of Chicago historian, Mary E. Hicks, about her new book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery! Look out for our convo on the New Books Network tomorrow morning!

Terry Bouton, author of "A Road Closed: Rural Insurgency in Post-Independence Pennsylvania," has an excellent new book out "Taming Democracy: 'The People,' the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution".