Atlantic Cataclysm : Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades / David Eltis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eltis, David, 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The book offers a new interpretation of why the slave trades (transatlantic as well as intra-American) began and ended, questioning the established narratives. A comprehensive and major work for scholars and students that should transform our assessment of the history of the Atlantic World"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Atlantic slave trading and world history

The Americas and Atlantic slave trading: the Iberians and the rest

Europe and Atlantic slave trading

The Portuguese system

Africa, Africans, and the slave trade

Abolition: metropolitan reservations, peripheral pressure

Freedom?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2024).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-009-51894-1

1-009-51893-3

1-009-51896-8