LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james walvin

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james walvin

  • English Urban Life
    James Walvin
    The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid population growth; and an unprecedented rate of social change resulting from this. These ever-increasing armies of town dwellers presented the local and central authorities with a myri...
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    85,53 €

  • African’s Life, 1745-1797
    James Walvin
    The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a prominent African in late 18th-century Britain, is quoted, anthologized and interpreted in dozens of books and articles. More than any single contemporary, Equiano speaks for the fate of millions of Africans in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. This study attempts to create a rounded portrait of the man behind the literary image, ...
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    155,77 €

  • Questioning Slavery
    James Walvin
    Surveying the key questions of slavery, this book traces the arguments which have surrounded its history in recent years. A wide-ranging thematic organisation covers racial, economic, political, social, cultural, gender and colonial dimensions. ...
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    77,60 €

  • The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907
    James Walvin
    This volume describes the life of Henry Clarke, a teacher, a cleric politician, a businessman, an inventor, and the father of eleven children who lived in Jamaica for the last 60 years of his life. ...
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    99,40 €