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A World Transformed - Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power (Hardcover)
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A World Transformed - Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power (Hardcover)
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A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of
the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing
that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from
traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered
accounts of the most recent scholarship into a comprehensive
history of slavery and its shaping of the world we know. Celebrated
historian James Walvin tells a global story that covers everything
from the capitalist economy, labor, and the environment, to social
culture and ideas of family, beauty and taste. This book
underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the
making of the modern world. The enforced transportation and labour
of millions of Africans became a massive social and economic force,
catalysing the rapid development of multiple new and enormous
trading systems with profound global consequences. The labour and
products of enslaved people changed the consumption habits of
millions - in India and Asia, Europe and Africa, in colonised and
Indigenous American societies. Across time, slavery shaped many of
the dominant features of Western taste: items and habits or rare
and costly luxuries, some of which might seem, at first glance,
utterly removed from the horrific reality of slavery. A World
Transformed traces the global impacts of slavery over centuries,
far beyond legal or historical endpoints, confirming that the world
created by slave labour lives on today.
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