Phil Agee

Bankers, bondholders, and imperial violence in the Atlantic world.

[Phil Agee @philagee]

Daring to be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World is a tour-de-force from Sudhir Hazareeshingh chronicling marronage, combat experiences, clandestine activities, and spiritual movements.

[David Harvey | @davidharvey.org on Bluesky @profdavidharvey]

Free registration to watch the live stream of the launch of The Story of Capital, published by @VersoBooks, at @PeoplesForumNYC on March 30th at 6:30 PM [ET]. Featuring @profdavidharvey in conversation with @adam_tooze.

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[Sven Beckert @Sven_Beckert]

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Thank you Zander Navarro for this careful reading of Capitalism: A Global History and introducing the book to Brazil.
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[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

"These awe-inspiring escape stories … encourage those of us today who still believe in freedom to build on these legacies." — Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Ship:The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea by Marcus Rediker is out now!

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[Paradigm Shift @Bmore_Creative]

Capitalism Didn’t Replace Slavery, It Scaled It | David McNally https://t.co/24FOtcv37Z via @YouTube

[Phil Agee @philagee]

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".

[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

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:

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[Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes) @CulturedModesty]

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!

[Age of Revolutions @AgeofRevs]

Discover how early 19th-century Californian courts contested indigenous identities in "Indigeneity on Trial by a Californio Jury, 1805-1806" by James Bland. 🌍✨
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[Phil Agee @philagee]

@policytensor For Triepel's "Die Hegemonie: ein Buch von führenden Staaten" try Hathitrust: https://t.co/vRRiMEAGWH

[Ousmane Sonko @SonkoOfficiel]

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 de l’annonce à ces pays africains.

Je tiens à dire que, dans le cas du Sénégal, cette affirmation est totalement erronée.
Aucune discussion ou négociation n’a eu lieu à ce jour et la décision prise par le Sénégal découle de sa seule volonté , en tant que pays libre, indépendant et souverain.

Il déclare, enfin, « qu’aucun pays africain ne serait aujourd’hui souverain, si la France ne s’était déployée ». Constatons que la France n’a ni la capacité ni la légitimité pour assurer à l’Afrique sa sécurité et sa souveraineté.

Bien au contraire, elle a souvent contribué à déstabiliser certains pays africains comme la lybie avec des conséquences désastreuses notées sur la stabilité et la sécurité du Sahel.

C’est enfin le lieu de rappeler au Président Macron que si les soldats Africains, quelquefois mobilisés de force, maltraités et finalement trahis, ne s’étaient pas déployés lors la deuxième guerre mondiale pour défendre la France, celle-ci serait, peut être aujourd’hui encore, Allemande.

[Phil Agee @philagee]

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

[joseph francis @joefrancis505]

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

[Phil Agee @philagee]

@NewLeftEViews spinoza

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

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.)

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Going to dig into the long history of imperialism and enslavement through the considerable work of Robin Blackburn from @NewLeftReview and @VersoBooks. Good companions for the long journey through Brazil and Colombia that starts today.

[John Rees @JohnWRees]

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: https://t.co/Xi4mbktwi5 🧵

[Edward T. O'Donnell inthepastlane.bsky.social @InThePastLane]

Book Review - The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888 by Robin Blackburn https://t.co/Bhfq9RCcWl

[D Waldstreicher @DWaldstreicher]

Working hard to get ready for this....

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#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 ruling that ordered desegregation in public schools and gave the agency broad powers to fight federal “encroachment.”

Under the direction of Gov. Ross Barnett, the commission promoted propaganda, sending white and Black speakers up North to talk about how wonderful segregation was. The commission also hired informants, infiltrated civil rights groups, smeared civil rights workers and got them fired from their jobs.

The commission collected spy files on more than 10,000 people, including such people as Elvis Presley. In addition, the commission sent more than $193,000 of taxpayers’ money to the white Citizens’ Council — a practice that drew criticism from Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers.

In spring 1964, the commission spied on two young white civil rights workers, Mickey and Rita Schwerner, after they began to work in the movement in Meridian, Mississippi. The commission shared its spy report with the local police, which included the brother of Klansman Alton Wayne Roberts, who was involved in killing three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

In 1973, then Gov. Bill Waller vetoed the Mississippi Legislature’s appropriation to the commission, effectively shutting it down. In 1977, the Legislature abolished the agency and sealed the files for 50 years, but a lawsuit by the ACLU succeeded in opening those files.
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