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  • The Zong

    A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery

    de James Walvin ...
    "A lucid, fluent and fascinating account of the Zong. The book details the horror of the mass killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship in 1781."—Gad Heuman, co-editor of The Routledge History of SlaveryOn November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Histoire du sucre, histoire du monde

    de James Walvin ...
    Traducido por Philippe Pignarre ...
    Series series Poche / Sciences humaines et sociales
    Suivre le sucre pour éclairer l'histoire du monde : tel est le stupéfiant voyage auquel nous invite James Walvin. Tout commence avec la colonisation des Caraïbes et des Amériques, puis avec l'essor des plantations. C'est la naissance d'un nouvel ordre, fondé sur la déportation de millions d'Africains réduits en esclavage. Après l'extermination des populations indigènes et la destruction des ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • A Jamaican Plantation

    The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970

    de Michael Craton, James Walvin ...
    Series series Heritage
    Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not just the story of a single Jamaican plantation and its people over three hundred years; the study reveals, in microcosm, the social and economic development of the area. ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Sugar

    de James Walvin ...
    How did sugar grow from prize to pariah? Acclaimed historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the sugar grown by enslaved people who had been uprooted and shipped vast distances to undertake the grueling labor on plantations. The combination of sugar and slavery would transform the tastes of the Western world. Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Short History of Slavery

    de James Walvin ...
    As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against Walvin's own incisive historical narrative, the two layers of this extraordinary, definitive account of the Atlantic slave trade enable us to ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • Crossings

    Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Freedom

    de James Walvin ...
    In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality of slavery, but the resistance of the enslaved themselves—from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings—and its impact in overthrowing slavery. Following Columbus's landfall, slavery became a critical institution across the New World. It had seismic consequences for Africa while leading to the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Slavery in Small Things

    Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits

    de James Walvin ...
    Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects.Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert on the topicTraces the relationship between slavery and modern cultural habits through an analysis of commonplace objects that include sugar, tobacco ... Leer más

    $29.00 USD

  • Amazing Grace

    A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn

    de James Walvin ...
    “A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the author’s hands, 'Amazing Grace' lands firmly on the right side of history.”―TLSJourney through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity.Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, "Amazing Grace" has become ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The People's Game

    The History of Football Revisited

    de Professor James Walvin ...
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, soccer was widely accepted as the most popular game in the western world. In the space of a few decades, it had become the best-supported team game in Britain, watched and played by more boys and men than any other sport. Yet here was a game with strong traditional folk roots and a history that stretched back to the late Middle Ages. In the course of the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • A World Transformed

    Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power

    de James Walvin ...
    Series series 20220422
    A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world.A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can be fully understood only by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the latest modern scholarship into a ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907

    de James Walvin ...
    When Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman, yet he had only spent the first 19 years of his life in England, the next 60 being spent in Jamaica. He was a teacher, a cleric politician, a businessman, an inventor, and the father of eleven children. He left behind an extraordinary amount of writing, including a six volume diary upon which this biography is based. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD