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Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- FULLER TITLES OF AUTHORITIES -- THE LAST EAST-INDIAN VOYAGE -- THE NARRATIVE OF THOMAS CLAYBORNE -- HIS NAUTICAL OBSERVATIONS -- FRAGMENT OF A JOURNAL KEPT IN THE ASCENSION -- 'AN EXACT DISCOURSE OF THE SUBTILTIES... OF THE EAST INDIANS', BY EDMUND SCOTT -- APPENDICES -- THE COMPANY'S INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE VOYAGE -- LETTER FROM JAMES I TO THE KING OF BANTAM -- LETTER FROM THE COMPANY TO CAPTAIN KEELING, 25 MARCH 1604 -- INSTRUCTIONS LEFT BY MIDDLETON AT BANTAM -- NOTE ON THE PLAN OF BANTAM -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- ILLUSTRATION -- TERNATE -- MAPS -- THE MOLUCCAS -- THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO -- PLAN OF BANTAM IN 1596.

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I-THE DECLINE OF CAPITALISM -- The Present Economic Crisis -- The Mass Impoverishment of the Toilers -- Capitalist Fear and Confusion -- Cyclical Crises -- The General Crisis of Capitalism -- The Decaying Capitalist System -- The War Danger -- The World-Wide Revolutionary Upsurge. -- The Revolutionary Perspective -- CHAPTER II-THE RISE OF SOCIALISM -- Flourishing Bolshevik Industries -- The Revolution in Agriculture -- Outstripping the Capitalist Countries -- Real Prosperity for the Toilers -- The Cultural Revolution -- Accomplishing the "Impossible" -- Socialism and Communism -- The Dictatorship of the Proletariat -- The Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- CHAPTER III-CAPITALIST ATTEMPTS TO LIQUIDATE THE CRISIS -- (a) Quack Capitalist Economic Remedies -- The Rationalization of Industry -- The American "New Capitalism" -- Trusts and Cartels -- The Movement for Capitalist Planned Economy -- The Question of an Organized Capitalism -- (b) Futile Efforts to Quench the Class Struggle -- From Social Reformism to Social Fascism -- The Fasciszation of the American Federation of Labor -- The Fasciszation of the Socialist Party -- The "Left" Social Fascists -- The Bankruptcy of Social Fascism -- The Futility of Fascism -- CHAPTER IV-THE REVOLUTIONARY WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS -- The Conquest of Political Power -- The Revolutionary Forces in the United States -- The Communist Party -- the Party of the Toilers -- The Present-Day Tasks of the American Revolutionary Movement -- The Communist Party Program of Immediate Demands -- A Program of Class Struggle -- The American Workers and the Revolution -- CHAPTER V-THE UNITED SOVIET STATES OF AMERICA -- The American Soviet Government -- The Expropriation of the Expropriators -- The Improvement of the Toilers' Conditions

"Bill Foster's clear survey of this lively field provides a critical overview of current scholarship. Taking a thematic and comparative approach to fit with course needs, Foster couples case studies from the Americas with comparative perspectives from the ancient and medieval worlds, the Pacific and the Christian-Muslim slave frontier"--Provided by publisher

Narratives of captor and captive -- The farm : lives of the Congregation Notre-Dame -- The frontier : girls' own errand into the wilderness -- The hospital : paradoxes of the Grey Sisters -- The seigneury : obscuring Marguerite and Louise Guyon -- The household : captive and Canadienne