Wars Of Imperial Conquest In Africa, 1830-1914

By Bruce Vandervort

This work investigates the social, economic and political impact of the European colonial wars in Africa on both the victors and the vanquished. It examines...

Published June 4th 1998 by Routledge.

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New Found Lands

Maps in the History of Exploration

By Peter Whitfield

An exploration narrative can be a tale of adventure and endurance, a technical account of navigation and seamanship, or a political history of the overseas...

Published May 26th 1998 by Routledge.

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The Caribbean Basin

An International History

By Graeme Mount, Stephen Randall

The Caribbean Basin: An International History provides a study of the entire Caribbean region, including Central America and the Caribbean coast of northern South America....

Published May 14th 1998 by Routledge.

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The Games Ethic and Imperialism

Aspects of the Diffusion of an Ideal

By J.A. Mangan

This is more than a description of the imperial spread of public school games: it considers hegemony and patronage, ideals and idealism, educational values and...

Published February 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes

By Richard Ligon

In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture. His description of a plantation indicates the size...

Published January 31st 1998 by Routledge.

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An Historical Account of the Island of St Vincent

By Charles Shepard

Charles Shephard, a legal officer of the island of Saint Vincent, made no attempt at objectivity in his account of the great 1795 Carib rebellion,...

Published September 9th 1997 by Routledge.

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Routes to Slavery

Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Edited by David Eltis, David Richardson

Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this...

Published July 31st 1997 by Routledge.

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The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807

By Judith Jennings

This study presents new information about the four Quaker businessmen who helped found the London Abolition Committee in 1787 and remained active in the late...

Published March 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Colonization

A Global History

By Marc Ferro

This is an extremely wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey of colonization from its origins to the post-colonial world. Original and lively, it offers the student:
* a...

Published February 13th 1997 by Routledge.

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Questioning Slavery

By James Walvin

For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on the systems of slavery. Most of these systems,...

Published November 21st 1996 by Routledge.

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