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  • Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa

    Edición de Martin A. Klein, Suzanne Miers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
    This book brings together a series of new case studies, some by young scholars, others by widely published authors. All are based on original research and designed to enhance our understanding of the process of the abolition of slavery in Africa at the grass-roots level. Part of the studies are on new areas of interest such as the German colonies and the Algerian Sahara. Others throw new light on ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

  • Children in Slavery through the Ages

    Edición de Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller ...
    Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas. Children in Slavery through the Ages examines the children among ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • Child Slaves in the Modern World

    Edición de Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller ...
    Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of previously unpublished essays exposes the global victimization of child slaves from the period of abolition of legal slavery in the nineteenth century to the human rights era of the twentieth century. It ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • Slavery in the Twentieth Century

    The Evolution of a Global Problem

    de Suzanne Miers ...
    In her new book, well-known Africanist Suzanne Miers places modern slavery in its historical context, tracing the phenomenal development of the international anti-slavery movement over the last hundred years. She demonstrates how the problems of eradication seem greater and more intractable today than they had ever been, showing how slavery has expanded to include newer forms from 1919 to 2000, ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • Transformations in Slavery

    A History of Slavery in Africa

    de Paul E. Lovejoy ...
    Series Libro 117 - African Studies
    This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Empire

    The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

    de Niall Ferguson ...
    A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world.**“Scrupulous scholarship and a rattling good tale.” —**Wall Street JournalThe British Empire was the largest in all history, its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's land surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population were ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Empire

    How Britain Made the Modern World

    de Niall Ferguson ...
    Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan MorrisOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • A Brief History of Slavery

    A New Global History

    de Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to the present in the form of contemporary crimes such as trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Understanding Africa Book 1

    de Brian Ross ...
    Anyone about to work in Africa will find this book instructive. It looks at the troubled history of the African continent south of the Sahara Desert. Readers learn of the early slave trade across the Sahara to destinations in the Middle East. This volume shows Portuguese explorers edging around the coast in search of gold, ivory and a sea route to the East. The history of colonialism is outlined ... Leer más

    $2.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Empire Project

    The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

    de John Darwin ...
    The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Guyana Story

    From Earliest Times to Independence

    de Odeen Ishmael ...
    The Guyana StoryFrom Earliest Times to Independence traces the countrys history from thousands of years ago when the first Amerindian groups began to settle on the Guyana territory. It examines the period of early European exploration leading to Dutch colonization, the forcible introduction of African slaves to work on cotton and sugar plantations, the effects of European wars, and the final ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Eritrea at a Crossroads

    A Narrative of Triumph, Betrayal and Hope

    de Andebrhan Welde Giorgis ...
    I congratulate Andebrhan Welde Giorgis on his high-quality and extremely informative book that has not only the merit to be an update on the political situation in Eritrea but also asks the pertinent questions on the future of his marvelous country. He does it with tact and success, based on his long experience as freedom fighter, as senior public servant, as Ambassador and his rich experience of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus