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A World Transformed - Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power (Paperback)
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A World Transformed - Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power (Paperback)
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Loot Price R569
Discovery Miles 5 690
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How Slavery in the Americas Matters 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. Why Slavery in the Americas Matters 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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