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  • Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    by David Eltis, David Richardson, Philip Misevich ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new editionIn the first edition of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, two leading historians explored details of the 350-year history of African slave traffic to the New World. They showed, with nearly 200 original maps, where the captives came from, how long the journeys lasted, how many died on the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Atlantic Cataclysm

    Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades

    by David Eltis ...
    In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by slavevoyages.org, Eltis offers compelling explanations of why the slave trades began and why they ended, and in the process debunks long-held ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • From the Galleons to the Highlands

    Slave Trade Routes in the Spanish Americas

    Edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, David Wheat ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies’ previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade. Spanish America received African captives not only directly via the transatlantic slave trade but also from slave markets in ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804–AD 2016

    Edited by David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher, David Richardson ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Slavery
    Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420–AD 1804

    Edited by David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Slavery
    Volume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti. The authors, well-known authorities in their respective fields, place slavery in the foreground of the collection but also examine other ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Routes to Slavery

    Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    Edited by David Eltis, David Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
    Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities. ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Human Capital and Institutions

    A Long-Run View

    Edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff ...
    Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic ... Read more

    $79.59 USD

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    Atlantic Cataclysm

    Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades

    by David Eltis ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 24 min

    In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by slavevoyages.org, Eltis offers compelling explanations of why the slave trades began and why they ended, and in the process debunks long-held ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • A Concise History of the Caribbean

    by B. W. Higman ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Crossings

    Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    by James Walvin ...
    From the mid-fifteenth century to the close of the nineteenth, it is estimated that more than 12 million people from Africa were forced onto slave ships and transported to the Americas; at least 11 million survived the journey. Even after Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the u.s. followed suit in 1808, more than 3 million Africans made the terrible ... Read more

    $28.69 USD