Robin Blackburn

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Robin Blackburn
Born1940 (age 83–84)
Education
Oxford University;
London School of Economics
OccupationHistorian
Known forFormer editor of New Left Review (1983–1999)
AwardsDeutscher Memorial Prize
Blackburn in 2010

Robin Blackburn (born 1940) is a British historian, a former editor of

Essex University
.

Background

Blackburn was educated at

Essex University.[1] He has been a regular contributor to New Left Review since 1962, and he was the journal editor from 1983 to 1999.[2]

Blackburn is an author of essays on the

financialisation
of everyday life" and of the privatisation of pension provision.

In 1997, he was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize for his book The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800.[3]

Selected works/articles

Blackburn (right) after giving an Oxford Amnesty Lecture, with Robin Kelley (left), who chaired the event, 2010
  • "Prologue to the Cuban Revolution". New Left Review. I (21). October 1963.
  • Towards Socialism, edited for the New Left Review (with Perry Anderson, 1966).
  • The Incompatibles: Trade Union Militancy and the Consensus (with Alexander Cockburn, 1967).
  • "Inequality and exploitation". New Left Review. I (42). March–April 1967.
  • Student Power: problems, diagnosis, action (edited with Alexander Cockburn, 1969).
  • Strategy for revolution [essays by Régis Debray, translated from the French] (editor, 1970).
  • Ideology in Social Science: Readings in Critical Social Theory (editor, 1972).
  • Explosion in a Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Ceylon (editor, 1975).
  • Revolution and Class Struggle: A Reader in Marxist Politics (editor, 1977).
  • The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 (1988), 550 pp.
  • "Fin de Siecle", in After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism (editor, 1991).
  • The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800 (1997), 600 pp.
  • Banking on Death: Or, Investing in Life — The History and Future of Pensions (2002), 500 pp.
  • "Haiti, Slavery and the Age of the Democratic Revolution", William and Mary Quarterly, 2006.
  • Age Shock: How Finance Is Failing Us (2006), 280 pp.
  • "Economic Democracy: Meaningful, Desirable, Feasible?", Daedalus, Summer 2007.
  • "Plan for a global pension". New Left Review. II (47). September–October 2007.
  • "The subprime crisis". New Left Review. II (50). March–April 2008.
  • The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (2011), 460 pp.
  • Marx and Lincoln: An Unfinished Revolution (2011), 220 pp.
  • "Alexander Cockburn 1941–2012". New Left Review. II (76). July–August 2012.
  • "Gunboat Abolitionism", New Left Review. II (79). May–June 2013.
  • "Stuart Hall 1932–2014", New Left Review. II (86). March–April 2014.

References

  1. ^ Robin Blackburn, Verso Books.
  2. ^ "A Brief History Of New Left Review 1960–2010". New Left Review. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Past Recipients". The Deutscher Memorial Prize. Retrieved 15 December 2023.

External links

Awards
Preceded by
Donald Sassoon
 Deutscher Memorial Prize
1997 		Vacant
Title next held by
Francis Wheen
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