Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits

ISBN-13: 9781119166221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str.

Walvin, James

Opis

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects.

• Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert on the topic
• Traces the relationship between slavery and modern cultural habits through an analysis of commonplace objects that include sugar, tobacco, tea, maps, portraiture, print, and more
• Represents the only study that utilizes common objects to illustrate the cultural impact and legacy of the Atlantic slave trade
• Makes the topic of slavery accessible to a wider public audience

Slavery in Small Things: Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long–range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects.

Recenzje

Suggestions form the author:

• Richard Rabinowitz, American History Workshop, 588 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215–3707 – CONTACTED 03/04/2017
• Caryl Phillips, Dept of English, Yale University, P.O. Box 208302, New Haven, CT 06520–8302. – SENT 03/04/2017
• David Blight, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, P.O. Box 208206, 230 Prospect St, new Haven CT 065205–8206. – CONTACTED 03/04/2017
• Professor James Horn, Director, Historic Jamestown, 1368 Colonial Parkway, Jamestown, Virginia VA 23081.
• Ted Maris–Wolf, Vice–President and Director of Research, Colonial Williamsburg, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23185.
• Paul Ley, Editor, History Today, 2^nd Floor, 9 Staple Inn, London WCIV 7QH – CONTACTED 03/04/2017
• Rob Attar, BBC History Magazine, Tower House, Fairfax St, Bristol, BS1 3BN. – CONTACTED 03/04/2017
• Professor John Oldfield, Director, Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High St, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK – REVIEWED BOOK AS MANUSCRIPT
• Professor Gad Heuman, Editor, Slavery and Abolition, Dept of History, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7VL, UK. – SENT 04/04/2017

Spis treści

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Slavery in Western Life 1

1 A Sugar Bowl: Sugar and Slavery 11

2 Cowrie Shells: Slavery and Global Trade 37

3 Tobacco: The Slave Origins of a Global Epidemic 54

4 Mahogany: Fashion and Slavery 82

5 Stately Homes and Mansions: The Architecture of Slavery 104

6 Maps: Revealing Slavery 128

7 A Portrait: Pictures in Black and White 151

8 The Brooks: Slave Ships 173

9 A Book: Slavery and the World of Print 192

10 Chains: The Ironware of Slavery 218

11 Cotton: Slavery and Industrial Change 239

Conclusion 262

Index 265

O autorze

James Walvin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Professor Emeritus at the University of York, and formerly a Visiting Fellow at Yale University. His books include Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire, 2E (2001); The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery (2007); A Short History of Slavery (2007); Britain′s Slave Empire (2008); The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery (2011); The Slave Trade (2011); and Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2013).