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  • Wesleyan Methodist Sermons

    by William M. Punshon, John H. James, Joshua Priestley, W. Arthur, Charles Prest, Gervase Smith, George Wood ...
    The Sermons which make up this volume were preached at Malvern, in 1866, at, and immediately after, the opening services of the Wesleyan Chapel there.This beautiful and commodious building owes its erection to the piety and energy of the Rev. W. M. PUNSHON, who, in the year 1862, proposed by Lectures, and otherwise, to raise a fund for building Wesleyan Chapels in places of summer resort.This ... Read more

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  • The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century

    by William Gervase Clarence-Smith ...
    First Published in 1989. Well over a million slaves were exported from Indian Ocean and Red Sea ports in Eastern Africa during the nineteenth century, and millions more were shifted around the interior of the continent and along the coast of East Africa. And yet we still know remarkably little about this great movement of people, particularly from an economic point of view. This is a collection of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914

    by William Gervase Clarence-Smith ...
    Cocoa and Chocolate,1765-1914 focuses on the period from the Seven Years War, to the First World War, when a surge of economic liberalism and globalisation should have helped cocoa producers to overcome rural poverty, just as wool transformed the economy of Australia, and tea that of Japan. The addition of new forms of chocolate to Western diets in the late nineteenth century led to a great cocoa ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780–1960

    Trade, Knowledge, and Labour

    Edited by Alexander van Wickeren, Jean Stubbs, William Gervase Clarence-Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy. It brings together case-studies from known and lesser-known tobacco regions of the world to interrogate tobacco’s ‘second globalisation’, a concept little employed by historians thus far, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    European Colonisation of Black Africa 1780s-1880s

    Edited by Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic themes in addition to the political and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Collectives in the Spanish Revolution

    by Gaston Leval ...
    Translated by Vernon Richards ...
    Gaston Leval's study brings together two aspects that are generally difficult to unite - analysis and testimony. He visited the towns and villages of revolutionary Spain where people had opted to live a libertarian communist lifestyle almost without precedent in history, collectivising the land, factories, and social services. Collectives in the Spanish Revolution demonstrates clearly that the ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Faith's Checkbook (Mobi Classics)

    by Charlos H. Spurgeon ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • A Splendid Exchange

    How Trade Shaped the World

    by William J. Bernstein ...
    A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.How did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric ... Read more

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  • Open Veins of Latin America

    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York TimesFINALIST: ... Read more

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  • C. H. Spurgeon - Sermons on Prayer: 40 Powerful Sermons to Ignite Your Prayer Life!

    by Charles Spurgeon ...
    Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) was a British minister known as the “Prince of Preacher’s” whose writings are considered clazzics and are still in high-demand today. He preached to over 10 million people in his lifetime and published thousands of sermons, besides starting a College for Pastors and orphanages for boys and girls. This fantastic volume contains 40 of Spurgeon’s most powerful sermons ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

    by Hannah Smith ...
    Series series Moody Classics
    Though her life was difficult, Hannah Whitall Smith's message was joyful. In the Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, she writes that "Jesus came to save you fully now, in this life, from the power and dominion of sin, and to deliver you altogether." Passionate and practical, Whitall Smith's classic of the Holiness movement focuses not on human effort but on simple, stubborn faith in the Savior and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD