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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jessica oudsten”
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  • The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade

    New Methods, Perspectives, and Sources

    Edited by Ramona Negrón, Jessica Oudsten, Camilla Koning, Karwan Fatah-Black ...
    Series series Slavery and Emancipation
    In this book, a new generation of scholars offers fresh perspectives on the history of the Dutch slave trade. Traditionally, Dutch research has focused on business practices, often overlooking the enslaved and the complexities of illegal trade and violence. By experimenting with innovative methodologies and underutilised primary sources, this volume reveals the potential to uncover perspectives of ... Read more

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  • The Private Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam

    On Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt

    by Ramona Negrón, Jessica den Oudsten ...
    Series series Slavery and Emancipation
    An indispensable resource for academics and general readers, this fully translated and revised edition of De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt (Walburg Pers, 2022) examines the emergence of private Dutch slave trading in the eighteenth century. Focusing on the enterprise of Jochem Matthijs and Coenraad Smitt – whose slave ships transported an estimated ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • The Story Of The Great Irish Famine

    by Michael B. Roberts ...
    Series series The Story Of
    If 1916 is the founding myth of the Irish state then the famine is the founding tragedy.It was a tragedy on a truly epic scale, the events of the famine came to pass not in one of the worlds poorest nations, but in what was at the time part of metropolitan Britain (following the Act of Union of 1800).Caused by the destruction of the staple food of the ordinary Irishman and women, the potato, by ... Read more

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  • The Crown's Silence

    The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas

    by Brooke N. Newman ...
    For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present—and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an abolitionist ... Read more

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  • Empire Without End

    A New History of Britain and the Caribbean

    by Imaobong Umoren ...
    A powerful, groundbreaking new history of Britain and the Caribbean, challenging existing thinking about British colonization and recontextualizing the twin stories of contemporary inequality in both regions.In Empire Without End, historian Imaobong Umoren delivers an incisive and captivating exploration of the deep, complex ties between Britain and the Caribbean—largely underexamined until now. ... Read more

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  • Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

    by Hilary McD. Beckles ...
    Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

    by Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson ...
    The role of slavery in driving Britain's economic development is often debated, but seldom given a central place.In their remarkable new book, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson 'follow the money' to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery was not just a source of wealth for a narrow circle of slave owners who built grand country houses ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire

    British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

    by Alaine Low, Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

    by Brian Moore, B.W. Higman, Carl C. Campbell, Patrick Bryan ...
    The book is divided into two broad sections: In Slavery and Freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender Paradigms. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • African and Caribbean People in Britain

    A History

    by Hakim Adi ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEA major new history of Britain that transforms our understanding of this country's past'I've waited so long so read a comprehensively researched book about Black history on this island. This is it: a journey of discovery and a truly exciting and important work' Zainab AbbasDespite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains today a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • What if Latin America Ruled the World?

    How the South Will Take the North Through the 21st Century

    by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera ...
    For too many of us, Latin America exists "below the fold," an echobarely heard beyond the roar of U.S. economics, politics, and culture;the source of little more than dance steps, mesmerizing soccer, spicyfood, and questionable politics.But Latin America has been a vital part of the global community sincethe seventeenth century, when the Spanish silver peso became theworld's first global currency ... Read more

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  • Britain's Slave Traders

    A groundbreaking history from the lead investigator behind The Register of British Slave Traders

    by William A. Pettigrew ...
    This ground-breaking history reveals for the first time the true significance of the trade in enslaved Africans in Britain’s development as a modern nation - based on a comprehensive, landmark investigation.*FROM THE LEAD INVESTIGATOR BEHIND THE REGISTER OF BRITISH SLAVE-TRADERS*'Essentially, a new history of Britain' The Times‘Forensic analysis from a global authority’ Sathnam Sanghera'Deeply... ... Read more

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