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  • ‘Chords of freedom’

    Commemoration, ritual and British transatlantic slavery

    by J. R. Oldfield ...
    How should we as Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? ‘Chords of freedom’ sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed into the nation’s collective memory.By combining two current historiographical preoccupations - the construction of public memory and British ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery

    The Mobilisation of Public Opinion against the Slave Trade 1787-1807

    by J.R. Oldfield ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
    In 1792, 400,000 people put their signature to petitions calling for the abolition of the slaves trade. This work explains how this remarkable expression of support for black people was organized and orchestrated, and how it contributed to the growth of popular politics in Britain. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution

    An International History of Anti-slavery, c.1787–1820

    by J. R. Oldfield ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution offers a fresh exploration of anti-slavery debates in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It challenges traditional perceptions of early anti-slavery activity as an entirely parochial British, European or American affair, and instead reframes the abolition movement as a broad international network of activists across a range of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 1

    by Kenneth Morgan, Robin Law, David Ryden, J R Oldfield ...
    Contains primary texts relating to the British slave trade in the 17th and 18th century. The first volume contains two 18th-century texts covering the slave trade in Africa. Volume two focuses on the work of the Royal African company, and volumes three and four focus on the abolitionists' struggle. ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 4

    by Kenneth Morgan, Robin Law, David Ryden, J R Oldfield ...
    Contains primary texts relating to the British slave trade in the 17th and 18th century. The first volume contains two 18th-century texts covering the slave trade in Africa. Volume two focuses on the work of the Royal African company, and volumes three and four focus on the abolitionists' struggle. ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 2

    by Kenneth Morgan, Robin Law, David Ryden, J R Oldfield ...
    Contains primary texts relating to the British slave trade in the 17th and 18th century. The first volume contains two 18th-century texts covering the slave trade in Africa. Volume two focuses on the work of the Royal African company, and volumes three and four focus on the abolitionists' struggle. ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 3

    by Kenneth Morgan, Robin Law, David Ryden, J R Oldfield ...
    Contains primary texts relating to the British slave trade in the 17th and 18th century. The first volume contains two 18th-century texts covering the slave trade in Africa. Volume two focuses on the work of the Royal African company, and volumes three and four focus on the abolitionists' struggle. ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

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    by Adam Smith ...
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    THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK ON MODERN ECONOMICSThe Wealth of Nations is an economics book like no other. First published in 1776, Adam Smith's groundbreaking theories provide a recipe for national prosperity that has not been bettered since. It assumes no prior knowledge of its subject, and over 200 years on, still provides valuable lessons on the fundamentals of economics.This keepsake edition is a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Land as God Made It

    Jamestown and the Birth of America

    by James Horn ...
    **The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history“An absolutely terrific book.” —New York Times**In this beautiful, vividly told story, James Horn describes the beginnings of England’s first successful colony in America, persuasively demonstrating that Jamestown was the first great crucible of American history.A Land As God Made It describes the unimaginable ... Read more

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  • Great Issues in American History, Vol. I

    From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776

    Edited by Richard Hofstadter, Clarence L. Ver Steeg ...
    Series Book 1 - Great Issues in American History
    This first volume of Great Issues in American History -- three volumes of documents that cover the history of America from its settlement to the present -- gives us a generous sampling from the major political controversies in the Colonial period. Included are such documents as Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse of Western Planting" (1584), "Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of ... Read more

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  • The History of Jamaica

    From its Discovery by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1872

    by William James Gardner ...
    This systematic history of Jamaica was written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of 18th-century liberalism. It is based on public records and archives, and the mass of pamphlet literature which had been published over the years. ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending

    From the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746

    by James Knight ...
    Series series Early American Histories
    Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD