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  • African Americans in the Colonial Era

    From African Origins through the American Revolution

    by Donald R. Wright ...
    Series series The American History Series
    What are the origins of slavery and race-based prejudice in the mainland American colonies? How did the Atlantic slave trade operate to supply African labor to colonial America? How did African-American culture form and evolve? How did the American Revolution affect men and women of African descent?Previous editions of this work depicted African-Americans in the American mainland colonies as their ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia

    by Donald R. Wright ...
    Updated to reflect the local impact of current events such as global recession as well as the latest scholarly studies, this fascinating work shows how global events have affected people's lives over the past eight centuries in Niumi, a little-known territory located on the north bank of the Gambia River in West Africa. Drawing on written and oral testimony, the author locates this tiny place in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The World and a Very Small Place in Africa

    A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia

    by Donald R. Wright ...
    The World and a Very Small Place in Africa is a fascinating look at how contacts with the wider world have affected how people have lived in Niumi, a small and little-known region at the mouth of West Africa’s Gambia River, for over a thousand years.Drawing on archives, oral traditions and published works, Donald R. Wright connects world history with real people on a local level through an ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • A Splendid Exchange

    How Trade Shaped the World

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    A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.How did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric ... Read more

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  • The Obamas

    The Untold Story of an African Family

    by Peter Firstbrook ...
    "Fascinating...adds many interesting details to what we know of the President’s heritage."--David Remnick, TheNewYorker.comOn January 20, 2009, a few hundred men, women, and children gathered under trees in the twilight at K’obama, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. Barack Obama’s rise to the American presidency had captivated people around the world, but members of this ... Read more

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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    by David S. Landes ...
    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Read more

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  • Global Economic History

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    by Robert C. Allen ...
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    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
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    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

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  • The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present

    by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik ...
    Offering enhanced coverage of Africa, the Middle East, and the 20th century, this new edition of The World That Trade Created brings to life international trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, the authors show clearly that the seemingly modern concept of economic globalization has deep historical roots. ... Read more

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  • Power and Plenty

    Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium

    by Kevin H. O'Rourke, Ronald Findlay ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account of world trade and development over the course of the last millennium.Ronald Findlay and Kevin ... Read more

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  • Understanding Africa Book 1

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    Anyone about to work in Africa will find this book instructive. It looks at the troubled history of the African continent south of the Sahara Desert. Readers learn of the early slave trade across the Sahara to destinations in the Middle East. This volume shows Portuguese explorers edging around the coast in search of gold, ivory and a sea route to the East. The history of colonialism is outlined ... Read more

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