Böcker av Trevor R. Getz

This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500-present) from African points of view. It discusses the events and trends of global significance: the Atlantic slave system, the industrial revolution, World Wars I and II, and decolonization.

An exploration of major historical developments of global significance the Atlantic slave trade, industrialization, colonialism, the World Wars, decolonization, and feminism from the perspectives of Africans who experienced them"

By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, this book reveals the causes of the astounding success of slave owners, and also the factors that could, and in some cases did, lead to slave liberations.