James Walvin
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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 comprehensive history of slavery and its shaping of the world we know. Celebrated historian James Walvin tells a global story that covers everything...
Author
Publisher
Kalandraka Editoria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
James Walvin escribi̤ ±Breve historia de la esclavitud» en 2007, por el bicentenario de la abolici̤n de la trata de esclavos en el Reino Unido y en sus colonias. Experto en esta compleja materia, el autor presenta una selecci̤n de textos hist̤ricos que permiten acercarse a la mentalidad de quien ha sostenido una instituci̤n tan aberrante como moralmente aceptable, enfrent̀ndola con la visi̤n cr̕tica actual. La obra nos sit︢a con rigor...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic? Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the domain of the rich. But with the rise of the sugar colonies in the New World over the following century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous and an everyday necessity. Less than fifty years ago, few people suggested...