James Walvin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor Emeritus at the University of York, and formerly a Visiting Fellow at Yale University. His books include Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire, 2E (2001); The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery (2007); A Short History of Slavery (2007); Britain»s Slave Empire (2008); The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery (2011); The Slave Trade (2011); and Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2013).
47 Ebooks de James Walvin
James Walvin: Slavery in Small Things
Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. * Offers a new and original approa …
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James Walvin: Slavery in Small Things
Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. * Offers a new and original approa …
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James Walvin: Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907
When Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman, yet he had only spent the first 19 years of his life in England, the next 60 being spent in Jamaica. He was a teacher, a cl …
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€41.44
James Walvin: Zong
“A lucid, fluent and fascinating account of the Zong. The book details the horror of the mass killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship in 1781.”—Gad Heuman, co-editor of …
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€19.25
James Walvin: Questioning Slavery
For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on slavery. Yet these systems were mainly brought to a very rapid end. This text surveys the key questi …
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€48.54
James Walvin: Questioning Slavery
For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on slavery. Yet these systems were mainly brought to a very rapid end. This text surveys the key questi …
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€48.44
James Walvin: English Urban Life
The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid pop …
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€56.40
James Walvin: English Urban Life
The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid pop …
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€56.40
James Walvin: The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907
When Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman, yet he had only spent the first 19 years of his life in England, the next 60 being spent in Jamaica. He was a teacher, a cl …
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€64.09
James Walvin: The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907
When Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman, yet he had only spent the first 19 years of his life in England, the next 60 being spent in Jamaica. He was a teacher, a cl …
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€64.20
James Walvin: Atlas of Slavery
Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and ch …
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€78.76
James Walvin: Atlas of Slavery
Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and ch …
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€79.61
P. Edwards & James Walvin: Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade
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Michael Craton & James Walvin: Jamaican Plantation
Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not …
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€43.21
James Walvin: Sugar
An ‘entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity’s very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign …
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€3.99
James Walvin: Freedom
This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves – from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion – shines fresh li …
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€3.99
Michael Craton & James Walvin: Jamaican Plantation
Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not …
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€43.66
James Walvin: Short History of Slavery
As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible – morally accept …
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€9.49
Walvin James Walvin: Crossings
We all know the story of the slave trade-the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon th …
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€44.38
James Walvin: People’s Game
At the beginning of the twentieth century, soccer was widely accepted as the most popular game in the western world. In the space of a few decades, it had become the best-supported team game in Brita …
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James Walvin: Zucker
»Eine unterhaltsame, informative und zugleich erschreckende Globalgeschichte eines wichtigen Stoffes.« Sven Beckert, Autor von King Cotton Er versüßt unser Leben, macht kurzfristig glücklich, doch se …
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James Walvin: Zucker
»Eine unterhaltsame, informative und zugleich erschreckende Globalgeschichte eines wichtigen Stoffes.« Sven Beckert, Autor von King Cotton Er versüßt unser Leben, macht kurzfristig glücklich, doch se …
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€22.99
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 1
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€63.52
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 1
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€64.26
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 4
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€64.19
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 2
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€63.72
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 3
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€63.85
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 4
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€64.20
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 6
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€63.72
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 7
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€64.33
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 8
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 2
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 3
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€63.88
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 7
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€64.33
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 8
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€63.55
Peter J Kitson & Debbie Lee: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 6
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€64.44
C. L. R. James: Black Jacobins
‘James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture’ Sunday Times’The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis’ Gary Young …
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James Walvin: World Transformed
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 tradit …
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James Walvin: A World Transformed
A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world. A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three …
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€34.99
James Walvin: Amazing Grace
“A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the author’s hands, ‘Amazing Grace’ lands firmly on the right side of history.”―TLS Journey through the history of ‘Amazing G …
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James Walvin: African»s Life, 1745-1797
The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a prominent African in late 18th-century Britain, is quoted, anthologized and interpreted in dozens of books and articles. More than any single contemporary, Equ …
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€104.03
James Walvin: Making the Black Atlantic
The British role in the shaping of the African diaspora was central: the British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation and their colonial settlements in the Caribbean and No …
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€125.85
Jeffrey N Cox & Peter J Kitson: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 5
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€64.20
Jeffrey N Cox & Peter J Kitson: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 5
Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism – Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others – wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus …
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€64.20
Brycchan Carey & Geoffrey Plank: Quakers and Abolition
This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. Contributors from a range of disciplines, …
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