Freedom
The Overthrow of the Slave Empires
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2019
Summary
In this timely and very readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suffering of slavery, but on resistance, the resistance of the enslaved themselves—from sabotage and absconding to full-blown uprisings—and its impact in overthrowing slavery. He also looks at the whole Atlantic world, including the Spanish Empire and Brazil.
In doing so, he casts new light on one of the major shifts in Western history in the past five centuries. In the three centuries f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472141439 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472141431 |
| Author: | James Walvin, Professor James Walvin |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 26mm |
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Praise for James Walvin’s Sugar:
A brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its ironies. - Wall Street JournalPraise for James Walvin’s 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 and delicious substance, Sugar raises fundamental questions about our world. - New York TimesPraise for James Walvin’s Sugar:As an historian of slavery, Walvin is well versed in the triangular trade and explains the role of sugar cane in bringing Africans to the Caribbean. His survey of sugar in our lives is very readable. - SpectatorPraise for James Walvin’s Sugar: Shocking and revelatory … no other product has so changed the world, and no other book reveals the scale of its impact.Praise for James Walvin’s Sugar: What is striking about James Walvin’s new book is that, while focusing solely on sugar, it does not restrict itself to the past. Rather, it takes the story of perhaps the most transformative and destructive boom-crop of all time and brings it disturbingly into the present day. - BBC History MagazinePraise for James Walvin’s Sugar: A convincing, deep history of this (in)famous product … This is not simply the tale of those who toiled to produce sugar … Something more than a scholarly text, this study could not be more timely.Praise for James Walvin’s Sugar: A refreshingly historical look at a substance we often take for granted.Praise for James Walvin’s Sugar:Former history professor James Walvin’s latest book aims to untangle the social, political and economic history of sugar, a commodity that began as the preserver of the elite, but which now saturates cultures the world over. - NZMEAbout The Author
James Walvin
JAMES WALVIN is the author of many books on slavery and modern social history. His book, Crossings, was published by Reaktion Books in 2013 and he is the author of Sugar: The World Corrupted, from Slavery to Obesity (Robinson, 2017). His first book, with Michael Craton, was a detailed study of a sugar plantation: A Jamaican Plantation, Worthy Park, 1670-1970 (Toronto, 1970). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006, and in 2008 was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship.
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