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  • Captivity's Collections

    Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

    de Kathleen S. Murphy ...
    Series series Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
    Cashews from Africa’s Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era’s explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas ... Leer más

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  • Willoughbyland

    England's Lost Colony

    de Matthew Parker ...
    The untold story of the rise and fall of a short-lived seventeenth-century English colony in South America.At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland.When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Taste of Empire

    How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

    de Lizzie Collingham ...
    A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the worldIn The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Oak Island Mystery, Solved!

    de Joy A. Steele ...
    For more than two centuries, adventurers, thrill seekers and treasure hunters have tried to unlock the secret of Oak Island, investing millions of dollars, and costing at least six lives. And the obsession continues: a television series in the winter of 2014 and seasonal walking tours of the area that include locations highlighted by the series. Theories and intrigue abound – a clandestine ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD

  • The Sugar Barons

    Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies

    de Matthew Parker ...
    To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became ... Leer más

    $24.59 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818

    de Shannon Ryan ...
    The waters off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic, held the world’s most abundant supply of codfish, which, when discovered, was in great demand. Unlike the fur trade—the other major early commercial activity in what is now mainland Canada—the production of codfish did not require year-round residence. It did, however, require numerous men, young and old, for the fishing season, which ran from ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD

  • Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure

    Third Edition

    de Graham Harris, Les MacPhie ...
    Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma of Nova Scotia's Oak Island. In this new edition of their book, they set out the previously unknown story of how complex and expensive engineering work was undertaken to create an elaborate flood tunnel on the island. Built to frustrate treasure seekers attempting to get at the valuables buried decades ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Bittersweet

    The story of sugar

    de Peter Macinnis ...
    Forty years after first chewing on sugar cane in New Guinea, the home of sugar, the author underwent some complex dental work as a direct result of his sweet tooth. This led him to explore sugar cane's journey from New Guinea to Shakespeare's England. In the days before dentistry, people paid dearly for this sweet new food from exotic places. Queen Elizabeth I became so partial to hippocras, ... Leer más

    $10.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Brother Gardeners

    de Andrea Wulf ...
    A fascinating look at the men who made Britain the center of the botanical world—from the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature.**“Wulf’s flair for storytelling is combined with scholarship, brio, and a charmingly airy style.... A delightful book—and you don’t need to be a gardener to enjoy it.” —**The New York Times Book ReviewBringing to life the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Dark History of Sugar

    de Neil Buttery ...
    A revealing history of our passion for sugar—and the medical, moral, environmental, and economic price we pay for it.A Dark History of Sugar delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things. Europe's colonial past and the British Empire were founded and fueled on sugar, as was the United States, the greatest superpower on the planet ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Thief at the End of the World

    Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire

    de Joe Jackson ...
    The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed historyIn this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe Jackson brings to life the story of fortune hunter Henry Wickham and his collaboration with the empire that fueled, then abandoned him. In 1876, Wickham smuggled 70,000 rubber tree seeds out ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Love Child

    A Genealogist's Guide to the Social History of Barbados

    de L.E. Salazar ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction. Take yourself on a journey to early Barbados, the place where many of the founding fathers of colonial America with thousands of settlers sojourned and catch a glimpse of early colonial life. If you like to think for yourself this book will be your compass as you uncover the secret connection of the people known as 'Red Legs' or Red Shanks in North America; and ... Leer más

    $8.73 USD