A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power

A World Transformed

Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power

By
James Walvin
James Walvin
2022 • 400 pages

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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109 books

Capitalism

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Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Bait and Switch
Had I Known
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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114 books

Economics

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Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Years That Matter Most How College Makes or Breaks Us
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
A Participatory Economy

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257 books

History United States

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The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty

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19 books

History United States Colonial

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In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
The Penguin Book of Witches
The Witches: Salem, 1692
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
How the Word Is Passed
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

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51 books

History World

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Historicizing Fear
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Salt: A World History
Empires of the Word
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

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43 books

Slavery

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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
The Captive
Sold
Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
Beloved
Chains
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery