An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . ....

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world

For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent o...

When Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman, yet he had only spent...

The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. En...

When the Reverend Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman. Yet he h...

This book traces slavery from classical times to the present. It shows how the enforced movement ...

James Walvin plots the story of black slavery and traces the intellectual and historical argument...

We all know the story of the slave trade--the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions ...

The British Empire carried more Africans into bondage across the Americas than any other nation. ...

James Walvin is the Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York. He has published wid...

In the three centuries following Columbus's landfall in the Americas, slavery became a critical i...

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-...

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-...

As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the hi...

'Historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the su...

A vivid and wide-ranging examination of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage...

The first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate; this is not just the story of a single ...

A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four...

In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suf...

History Files: This new paperback series presents the people, events, and ideas that shaped our p...

Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade

'No historian on either side of the Atlantic has captured this sweeping, epic story of inhumanity...

Breve Historia de la Esclavitud

'James Walvin's brilliant new book is more than a story about the fascinating legacy of a song wr...

'No historian on either side of the Atlantic has captured this sweeping, epic story of inhumanity...

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Word...

»Eine unterhaltsame, informative und zugleich erschreckende Globalgeschichte eines wichtigen Stof...