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The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade. British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion.
. Ed(S): Burroughs, Robert M.; Huzzey, Richard
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The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade saw the British Empire turn naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this nineteenth-century campaign. Editor(s): Burroughs, Robert M.; Huzzey, Richard. Series: Studies in Imperialism. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects and legacies of this campaign. As the first academic history of Britain’s campaign to suppress the Atlantic slave trade in more than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies and the history of medicine to analyse naval suppression in light of recent work ... Read more
The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects and legacies of this campaign. As the first academic history of Britain’s campaign to suppress the Atlantic slave trade in more than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies and the history of medicine to analyse naval suppression in light of recent work ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Imperialism
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719085116
SKU
V9780719085116
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Burroughs, Robert M.; Huzzey, Richard
Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Beckett University Richard Huzzey is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery -- .
Reviews for The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade. British Policies, Practices and Representations of Naval Coercion.
'Between Two Stools is a pleasure to read and makes significant contributions to the field of "shiterature". It is, in sum, good shit!' David Palumbo, THE, October 2012
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