Slavery and the British Empire
From Africa to America
$57.92
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
6 December 2007
Summary
Slavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards.
Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this chang…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192892911 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192892916 |
| Author: | Kenneth Morgan |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 6 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 140mm x 13mm |
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`An excellent introduction’Professor Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester, and co-editor of A Historical Guide to World Slavery
About The Author
Kenneth Morgan
Kenneth Morgan
Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University, London. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for American, Caribbean and Transatlantic History and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Professor Morgan has published widely in the social and economic history of Britain and her colonies, and in music history. His most recent book, Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet, won a 2006 Deems Taylor Prize from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
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