Autor: Suzanne Schwarz

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to …

An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women’s roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explore …

Interrogates the development of the world’s first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent ‚liberation‘ of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century. I …

In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British, …