Building the Atlantic Empires explores the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor and capitalist and imperial development. Contributors show Western European states as agents of capitalist expansion, imposing diverse forms of bondage on workers for infrastructural, plantation, and military labor. Extending the prolific literature on racial slavery, these essays help transcend imperial, colonial, geographic, and historiographic boundaries through comparative insights into multiple forms and ideologies of unfree labor as they evolved over the course of four centuries in...

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Buenos Aires, 1976. A military junta has taken power and rules Argentina with an iron fist. People are going missing. There are whisperings of secret detention centres, of torture and murder behind locked doors. Pablo Morales, a young priest, doesn't believe the rumours, until he hears a series of confessions that force him to confront the truth of the government's crimes - as well as the complicity of the Catholic Church. Torn between his faith, his ambition and his conscience, Pablo knows he must investigate. But the deeper he explores this dangerous world rife with corruption and...