The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas

The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas

The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian

A 'darkly compelling history of the trade'* MAIL ON SUNDAY *
The most impressive single volume history of the subject. Combining grand narrative sweep with vivid, telling detail, Thomas provides an elegant synthesis of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship * LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS *

Hugh Thomas has written numerous histories on the Spanish speaking world, including The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962, Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom, The Conquest of Mexico and The Slave Trade. His book The Unfinished History of the World won the first National Book Award for History in 1980. Hugh Thomas was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and was awarded a peerage as Lord Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.

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ISBN 13	9780753820568
ISBN 10	0753820560
Title	The Slave Trade
Author	Hugh Thomas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2006-01-05
Number of pages	928
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