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  • The Zong

    A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery

    by James Walvin ...
    "A lucid, fluent and fascinating account of the Zong. The book details the horror of the mass killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship in 1781."—Gad Heuman, co-editor of The Routledge History of SlaveryOn November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Amazing Grace

    A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn

    by James Walvin ...
    “A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the author’s hands, 'Amazing Grace' lands firmly on the right side of history.”―TLSJourney through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity.Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, "Amazing Grace" has become ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crossings

    Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade

    by James Walvin ...
    From the mid-fifteenth century to the close of the nineteenth, it is estimated that more than 12 million people from Africa were forced onto slave ships and transported to the Americas; at least 11 million survived the journey. Even after Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the u.s. followed suit in 1808, more than 3 million Africans made the terrible ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Atlas of Slavery

    by James Walvin ...
    Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present the story of slavery, explaining its historical importance and making this complex story and its geographical setting easy to understand. ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Slavery

    by James Walvin ...
    As we approach the bicentenary of the abolition of the Atlantic trade, Walvin has selected the historical texts that recreate the mindset that made such a savage institution possible - morally acceptable even. Setting these historical documents against Walvin's own incisive historical narrative, the two layers of this extraordinary, definitive account of the Atlantic slave trade enable us to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The People's Game

    The History of Football Revisited

    by Professor James Walvin ...
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, soccer was widely accepted as the most popular game in the western world. In the space of a few decades, it had become the best-supported team game in Britain, watched and played by more boys and men than any other sport. Yet here was a game with strong traditional folk roots and a history that stretched back to the late Middle Ages. In the course of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Questioning Slavery

    by James Walvin ...
    For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on slavery. Yet these systems were mainly brought to a very rapid end. This text surveys the key questions of slavery, and traces the arguments which have swirled around its history in recent years. The latest findings on slavery are presented, and a comparative analysis of slavery in the English ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • English Urban Life

    1776-1851

    by James Walvin ...
    The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid population growth; and an unprecedented rate of social change resulting from this. These ever-increasing armies of town dwellers presented the local and central authorities with a myriad of urgent ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907

    by James Walvin ...
    When Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman, yet he had only spent the first 19 years of his life in England, the next 60 being spent in Jamaica. He was a teacher, a cleric politician, a businessman, an inventor, and the father of eleven children. He left behind an extraordinary amount of writing, including a six volume diary upon which this biography is based. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Slavery in Small Things

    Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits

    by James Walvin ...
    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 topicTraces the relationship between slavery and modern cultural habits through an analysis of commonplace objects that include sugar, tobacco ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Sugar

    The world corrupted, from slavery to obesity

    by Professor James Walvin ...
    An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.'Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University and the author of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Amazing Grace

    A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn

    by James Walvin ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    A fascinating journey through the history of one of the transatlantic world’s most popular hymnsSung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, “Amazing Grace” has become an unparalleled anthem for humankind. How did a simple Christian hymn, written in a remote English vicarage in 1772, come to hold such sway in all corners of the modern world? With this short, ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook