From "our next great American historian" (Geraldine Brooks), an astonishingly ambitious account of how our desires became the engine that built the modern worldTo want is human. To want without end is modern. Our desires have never been easier to satisfy or harder to escape, shaped by a system that cultivates and multiplies them. In reinforcing our hunger for more, capitalism’s power lies somewhere more primal than markets: it turns human desire into demand for eve...

From "our next great American historian" (Geraldine Brooks), an astonishingly ambitious account of how our desires became the engine that built the modern worldTo want is human. To want without end is modern. Our desires have never been easier to satisfy or harder to escape, shaped by a system that cultivates and multiplies them. In reinforcing our hunger for more, capitalism’s power lies somewhere more primal than markets: it turns human desire into demand for eve...

The history of capitalism is a history of connections we have been taught not to see.What connects a Russian iron mine to a Caribbean sugar plantation? A New England fishing boat to an enslaved worker in Barbados? And what can those connections tell us about the clothes we wear, the food we eat and the phones in our hands today?In The Insatiable Empire, historian Franco Paz uncovers the hidden connections that built our modern world. Travelling acros...

In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book illuminates stories of individual Black people strivi...