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

by James Walvin

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

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can be fully understood only by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the latest modern scholarship into a comprehensive history of slavery and its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520397851
• ISBN13: 9780520397859
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.7"