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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
Slavery - The History and Legacy of One of the World's Most Brutal Institutions by James Walvin
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, where a male slave was worth an orchard of date palms. Female slaves were called on for sexual services, gaining freedom only when their masters died. This book traces slavery from classical times to the present. It shows how the enfor ...Show more
Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity by James Walvin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The modern successor to Sweetness and Power, James Walvin's Sugar is a rich and engaging work on a topic that continues to change our world.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 t ...Show more
The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James; James Walvin (Introduction by, Notes by)
$27.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin History Ser.
In 1789 the West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France. The entire structure of what was arguably the most profitable colony in the world rested on the labour of half a million slaves. In 1791 the waves of unrest inspired by the French Revolution reached across ...Show more
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