»Eine unterhaltsame, informative und zugleich erschreckende Globalgeschichte eines wichtigen Stof...

An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . ....

Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today’s Iraq, where a male slave was worth...

James Walvin is the Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York. He has published wid...

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world

As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the hi...

A vivid and wide-ranging examination of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage...

'Historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the su...

History Files: This new paperback series presents the people, events, and ideas that shaped our p...

Describes the history of how the 'Africa Trade' formed the backbone of the British Empire. This b...

In this timely and readable new work, Walvin focuses not on abolitionism or the brutality and suf...

The British Empire carried more Africans into bondage across the Americas than any other nation. ...