In the 1960s, Montreal was a hotbed of radical politics that attracted Black and Caribbean figures such as C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, Mariam Makeba, Stokely Carmichael, Rocky Jones, and Édouard Glissant. It was also a place where the ideas of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Malcolm X circulated alongside those of Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. During this period of global upheaval and heightened Canadian and Quebec nationalism, Montreal became a central site of Blac...

Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology and distinctive in its topography. Cipières: Community and Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is a unique exploration which brings together a wealth of documentary sources retained in the village with material evidence in the landscape to produce an interdisciplinary and holistic account of the development of one community and its lands. Beginning with a history of the Project, the volume examines the village’...

Press ReleaseThe Trillion Dollar Sure Thing by David A. MallachPenhurst Books (2014)The master of the financial thriller delivers his fifth novel, a blistering glimpse into the murky depths of world finance and terrorism where both downfall and redemption occur without regard for wealth, power, or prestige. Taking a turn towards a darker, more enigmatic protagonist than Mallach's earlier work, The Trillion Dollar Sure Thing introduces rookie Senator Beckett Rosemore...

In a brazen, daylight attack on his motorcade, Jonathan Lewis, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq is missing and every member of his diplomatic security detail is killed.Joe Matthews and his team paramilitary officers deploy to the region with a CIA response group to investigate the incident and locate Ambassador Lewis.With the help of a traitorous congressional staffer, elements deep inside Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are able to identify the individuals responsible ...

Donald Trump is back in the White House. Boston Review issue Trump’s Return explores how he got there, what’s next, and how to resist, featuring David Austin Walsh, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noura Erakat, Marshall Steinbaum, Jeanne Morefield, and more.Walsh takes us inside Trump’s motley coalition of tech billionaires a...

The Salvado Habana Event has devastated the world, leaving only a fraction of mankind left to rebuild society. Mark finds himself trying to make sense of what has happened, fend for his family’s survival, all the while aware that his son, Austin, already had struggles of his own that are seemingly fatal in this new world.Austin maintains his positivity throughout the initial aftermath of this event, and although he is unable to convey his reasoning to his father, he finds himself v...

The adventures of two Army brats. You are about to take an amazing adventure as you travel with two Army Brats that span from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, adventures that travel the world. This is a story about two military brats as they travel with their Army father. It tells the story of unusual and exciting experiences form just having fun, to life and death adventures.

Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under the Canadian prime minister’s guidance. However, after he moved to Montreal to study political science his politics started to shift. By the late sixties he was an active civil rights supporter and when Black students in Montreal began to protest racism in 1969, he helped lead the sit-in. He ...

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the “Third World,” this group of activis...

Offers a rare insight into the closed world of medieval Eastern Europe and opens up a neglected archaeological tradition to English-speaking readers. Sections focus on early European ethnic formations and states, the demography of medieval populations and the nature of rural settlement and urban development. The book challenges the intellectual assumptions of medieval archaeology and questions its relationship to history and prehistory. It exposes the limitations of a strictly empirical ap...

Since the 1970s, poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has been putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden’s claim that “poetry makes nothing happen.” For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been “a political act” and poetry “a cultural weapon.”In Dread Poetry and Freedom David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political consciousness, and social transformation through the prism of Johnson’s work. Dra...

Human services management occurs in nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit sectors and involves a wide variety of organizational structures. These diverse conditions shape the effort to produce and project services that directly affect the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities through social welfare, health and mental health, criminal justice, and educational services. David Austin begins with an examination of the historical development and distinctive characteristics...