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PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520386248
ISBN-139780520386242
eBay Product ID (ePID)25050411386
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Book TitleWorld Transformed : Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSlavery, Economic History, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), World
Publication Year2022
GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorJames Walvin
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight28.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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ReviewsMeticulous and eye-opening. . . . This richly detailed yet approachable history makes clear just how far and wide the grip of slavery reached., Walvin's beautifully written and compassionate narrative artfully synthesizes modern scholarship on slavery. He successfully decenters the nation-state to show the interconnectedness of the slave trade and the Atlantic economies and to demonstrate slavery's enormous human and environmental effects. . . . Walvin masterfully conveys the tragedy and enormity of his subject without losing details or forgetting his subjects' humanity., Walvin shows that slavery mattered in the past and matters now, in powerful and compelling prose. It is a tour de force., This single volume, written in clear and energetic prose, covers everything from the beginning of European slaving operations in West Africa at the end of the 15th century to the worldwide wave of anti-racism protests that followed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020. . . . Its compendious, comprehensive coverage makes it very valuable.
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal306.362097
Table Of ContentContents Maps Introduction Part One: The Trade 1 The Scattering of People 2 Spanish Origins 3 Spain and the Other Slavery 4 Slavery, Sugar and Power Part Two: People and Cargoes 5 Bound for Africa: Cargoes 6 Th e Dead Part Three: Internal Trades 7 Upheavals 8 Brazil's Internal Slave Trade 9 The Domestic US Slave Trade Part Four: Managing Slavery 10 A World of Paper: Accounting for Slavery 11 Managing Slavery 12 Brute Force 13 Working Part Five: Demanding Freedom 14 Finding a Voice 15 Demanding Freedom Part Six: A World Transformed 16 Beauty and the Beast 17 A World Transformed 18 Slavery Matters Acknowledgements Guide to Further Reading Index
SynopsisA 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 comprehensive history of slavery and its shaping of the world we know. Celebrated historian James Walvin tells a global story that covers everything from the capitalist economy, labor, and the environment, to social culture and ideas of family, beauty, and taste. This book underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the making of the modern world. The enforced transportation and labor of millions of Africans became a massive social and economic force, catalyzing the rapid development of multiple new and enormous trading systems with profound global consequences. The labor and products of enslaved people changed the consumption habits of millions--in India and Asia, Europe and Africa, in colonized and Indigenous American societies. Across time, slavery shaped many of the dominant features of Western taste: items and habits or rare and costly luxuries, some of which might seem, at first glance, utterly removed from the horrific reality of slavery. A World Transformed traces the global impacts of slavery over centuries, far beyond legal or historical endpoints, confirming that the world created by slave labor lives on today.
