Slaveri & frigörelse från slaveri

"Vithetens lön" var en ersättning som en gång gavs till vita arbetare i USA. Trots usla arbetsvillkor visade detta att de ändå stod över de svarta på samhällsstegen. Mycket har förändrats, men en rasism består och kan förstärkas när vitas andel av...

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Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS Byatt It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be...

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Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile. This book is his masterwork, based on his own experiences as well as the testimony of some 200 survivors. A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informer...

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Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the ...

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Discover the ground-breaking, must-read history of Africa, the Sunday Times bestseller charting the epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from the perspectives of Africans themselves. Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Picked...

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Dick Harrisons mästerliga och angelägna skildring av slaveriets historia! Dick Harrison, professor i historia och prisbelönt författare, är nu aktuell med en bok om ett ämne som berör honom djupt. Det handlar om en av världshistoriens största trag...

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case that African mald...

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Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tomb...

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bell hooks (1952-2021) är en amerikansk författare, feminist och politisk aktivist. Hennes kritiska studier av kön, etnicitet, klass och sexualitet har haft enorm betydelse för en bredare förståelse av feminism och utvecklandet av intersektionalit...

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Hur såg det nordiska slaveriet ut under vikingatiden? Finns det över huvud taget möjlighet att skapa sig en uppfattning om det? Professor Stefan Brink har formligen dammsugit alla upptänkliga källmaterial och behandlar arkeologi, runor, ortnamn, p...

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År 1732 erhöll den svenske kungen Fredrik I ett lejon i present av härskaren i den nordafrikanska staden Alger. Inte en tavla av ett lejon eller en skulptur av ett lejon, utan ett livs levande vilddjur som blev en stor celebritet efter ankomsten t...

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times 'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The iconic study of the Haitian revolution, b...

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The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. ¿ Karl Marx's writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism g...

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A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison. Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took pla...

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'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NATALIA SOLZHENITSYN A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, ...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK 'One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved . . .' Oprah Winfrey Lose yourself in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking ...

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tea...

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The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. 'Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorro...

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Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it 'Thoughtful and provocative... It is a must-read' Roxane Gay 'A book to make you stop and think' Mishal...

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2024 AND THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2025* *An instant Sunday Times bestseller, Radio 4 Book of the Week and Guardian Best Summer Read* Selected as a book to look out for by the Guardian and The Rest is Politics E...

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Trumpetaren och "morianen" Richard Abramsson, senare döpt till Karl Gustaf Abrahamsson, föddes i Boston, troligtvis 1764. Han kom till Sverige och rekryterades till hertig Karls livregemente. Hans öde bidrar med kunskap till den föga utforskade hi...

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'A must-read graphic history. . . an inspired and inspiring defence of heroic women whose struggles could be fuel for a more just future' Guardian 'Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story...

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A revelatory new history of Britain's industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain's industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency? Was it the country's natural abundanc...

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Discover the chilling untold story of sexual forced labor in Nazi concentration camps In his seminal work, The Concentration Camp Brothel, Robert Sommer reveals the hidden horrors of sexual forced labor within the SS camp system, a subject long ov...

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The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal democracy had ...

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'An original and outstanding new history of the New World... Magisterial' Spectator 'An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez' Irish Tim...

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WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 'Gripping ? remarkably wide-ranging' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave tr...

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'One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers' Claudia Rankine 'An unrelenting exploration of slavery and freedom' New Yorker In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman draws together a striking portrait of nineteenth-ce...

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