Häftad, Engelska, 2006
Slave Trade
Av Hugh Thomas
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Beskrivning
The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historianThe Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas.In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2006-01-05
- Mått: 156 x 235 x 62 mm
- Vikt: 1 058 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 928
- Förlag: Orion Publishing Co
- ISBN: 9780753820568
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Hugh Thomas has written numerous histories on the Spanish speaking world, including The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962, Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom, The Conquest of Mexico and The Slave Trade. His book The Unfinished History of the World won the first National Book Award for History in 1980. Hugh Thomas was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and was awarded a peerage as Lord Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.
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A 'darkly compelling history of the trade'.
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