Kenneth Morgan

Slavery and the British Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, which especially focuses on the two centuries from 1650, and covers the Atlantic world, especially North America and the West Indies, as well as the Cape Colony, Mauritius, and India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780199238996
• ISBN-10: 0199238995
• Artikelnr.: 23829870

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University, London, where he is Deputy Director of the Centre for American, Caribbean and Transatlantic History, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published widely in the social and economic history of Britain and her colonies, and in music history. His most recent book, Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet won a 2006 Deems Taylor Prize from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: Slavery and the Slave Trade
2: Merchants and Planters
3: The Triangular Trade
4: Slave Demography and Family Life
5: Work, Law, and Culture
6: Slave Resistance and Rebellion
7: The Abolition of the British Slave Trade
8: Slave Emancipation
Epilogue
Select Bibliography