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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power by James Walvin
34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the most recent sc ...Show more
Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires by James Walvin
32.99 AUD
Category: History
In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on the resistance of the enslaved themselves--from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings--and its impact in overthrowing slavery. He also looks that whole Atlantic world, inc ...Show more
How Sugar Corrupted the World - From Slavery to Obesity by James Walvin
22.99 AUD
Category: History
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.'Sve ...Show more
Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt by James Walvin
24.99 AUD
Category: History
This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World.It is high time that this resistance, in addition to abol ...Show more
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