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Atlantic cataclysm : rethinking the Atlantic slave trades / David Eltis, Emory University and University of British Columbia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eltis, David, 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : 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 : a Leninist interpretation
- Freedom?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781009518970
- 1009518976
- 9781009518956
- 100951895X
- OCLC:
- 1427565322
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