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  • The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy

    Circuits of trade, money and knowledge, 1650-1914

    Edited by Adrian Leonard, D. Pretel ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Born in Blackness

    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

    by Howard W. French ...
    Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Empire's Crossroads

    A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

    by Carrie Gibson ...
    A "wide-ranging, vivid" narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean ( The Observer).Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise History of the Caribbean

    by B. W. Higman ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The World of Sugar

    How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

    by Ulbe Bosma ...
    “An extraordinary achievement.” —David Edgerton, Literary Review“A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry have shaped the world in which we live.” —Gary Taubes, author of The Case Against SugarFor most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Caribbean

    A History of the Region and Its Peoples

    Edited by Stephan Palmié, Francisco A. Scarano ...
    An "illuminating" survey of Caribbean history from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course of five centuries by a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empires of the Atlantic World

    Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    by Prof. J. H. Elliott FBA ...
    This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • 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

    $8.99 USD

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

    by Martin A. Klein, Jan Hogendorn ...
    Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them.Among the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

    $24.99 USD