The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History - Couverture rigide

Rawley, James A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393014711 ISBN 13 : 9780393014716

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1981

Synopsis

VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges - price clipped. Book has clean and bright contents with very mild tone spots to page ends.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade. This revised edition of Rawley's classic, with the assistance of Stephen D. Behrendt, includes emended text to reflect the major changes in historiography; current slave trade data tables and accompanying text; updated footnotes; and, the addition of a select bibliography. James A. Rawley is Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of several books, including Turning Points of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting For, both available in Bison Books editions. Stephen D. Behrendt is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington. He has co-authored a data archive of 27,233 slave voyages, "The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM".

Revue de presse :

' ... a quite outstanding achievement ... a triumph of enterprise, industry and imaginative reconstruction ... This whole project is an example of historical cooperation at its finest ... This publication is a gold mine of information, most of which would have remained inaccessible to any single scholar ... The CD-Rom is easy to use ... the present study is as good as it gets: rooted in remorseless archival investigations, subjected to critical intellectual scrutiny and debate and rendered into manageable format by a publisher and its technical assistants who deserve the highest praise ... It is a scholarly work with massive implications for our understanding not simply of the Atlantic slave trade, but for our grasp of the complex cultural and social shaping of the Atlantic world. Would David Eltis and company please step forward for a curtain call - they deserve a standing ovation.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0393014711
• ISBN 13: 9780393014716
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 468