A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power 9781472144331, 1472144333

A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power 9780520386259

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world. How Slavery in the Americas Matters ex

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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World [Paperback ed.] 0449904962, 9780449904961

" As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the dee

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Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 [Paperback ed.] 1442605553, 9781442605558

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa t

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Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 9781442605565

Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas a

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The reaper's garden: death and power in the world of Atlantic slavery 9780674024229, 9780674057128

What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper's Garden, Vincent Brown asks this que

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The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization 9780399576423, 9780399576430

The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our l

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Turkey in the Global Economy: Neoliberalism, Global Shift, and the Making of a Rising Power 9780228004578

A rising power takes its place in an economically precarious world. A rising power takes its place in an economically

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Projections of Power in the Americas 9781136340253, 2011039609, 9780415517478, 9780203123607

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Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas 9780822385288

The history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture.

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Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality 0262029618, 9780262029612

After nearly a quarter century of international negotiations on climate change, we stand at a crossroads. A new set of a

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