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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents seven important new books on slavery, capitalism, rebellion and ecological revolution.

The Reckoning is a magnificent conclusion to a quartet of books on New World slavery, explaining the role of slavery and its abolition in the rise of American power, finds Chris Bambery In his fifth and final volume, The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888, in his series charting the history of slavery in the modern world, Robin Blackburn turns his attention to the Second Slavery, the plantation system in the United States, Cuba and Brazil growing cotton, sugar and coffee to meet the demands of Western Europe and the northern states of the USA.

A compelling way to renew the study of our collective past. In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of dependency theory. That theory, associated with the German American economic historian Andre Gunder Frank, the Guyanese historian Walter Rodney and the Argentine and Brazilian economists Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, among others, emphasized the historical role of colonialism and imperialism in creating unequal economic relations between count...

The rise to prominence of analyses of racial capitalism represents a breakthrough in Marxian theory. This has necessarily been accompanied by a critique of…

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