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Study Guide: Saltwater Slavery by Stephanie E. Smallwood
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Saltwater Slavery by Stephanie E. Smallwood includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the commodification of African captives, diaspora, and social death, and the Middle Passage. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Saltwater Slavery recreates the slave trade through the eyes of enslaved African people. This work of historical nonfiction shows the physical and psychological damage of the commodification process on captives and the normalization of this process by the individuals associated with and involved in the slave trade.
This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a work’s underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Eye-Opening
- De D. Hutchins en 05-27-21
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- De: Howard W. French
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 153
Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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American History World History Our History
- De Bill en 06-13-22
De: Howard W. French
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- De: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 523
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 434
Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Superb must read for everyone
- De Joy en 04-16-19
De: Walter Rodney, y otros
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Slavery's Capitalism
- A New History of American Economic Development
- De: Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman - editor
- Narrado por: William Hughes, Kevin Kenerly, Bahni Turpin, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 363
During the 19th century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The volume is so low I can't hear it.
- De Anonymous User en 01-30-18
De: Sven Beckert - editor, y otros
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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performance....
- De Bonnie en 11-15-22
De: Amitav Ghosh
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The Victory of Reason
- How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 85
In The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark advances a revolutionary, controversial, and long overdue idea: that Christianity and its related institutions are, in fact, directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium. In Stark's view, what has propelled the West is not the tension between secular and non-secular society, nor the pitting of science and the humanities against religious belief. Christian theology, Stark asserts, is the very font of reason.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely incredible history book!
- De Daniel en 01-02-20
De: Rodney Stark
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The Dutch East India Company
- A Captivating Guide to the First True Multinational Corporation and Its Impact on the Dutch War of Independence from Spain
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Randy Whitlow
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Huge international companies and corporations are a normal part of our everyday lives today. For most, their unimaginable wealth and power, rivaling even some of the smaller countries of the world, is something we take for granted. And we see them as the living embodiment of the capitalist system, regardless if we take it as a good or a bad omen. However, this wasn’t always the case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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bang for your buck
- De Bob Swain en 04-20-21
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The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the Caribbean
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Dan Gallagher
- Duración: 1 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
The Arawak: The History and Legacy of the Indigenous Natives in South America and the Caribbean examines the culture and history of the indigenous groups and what happened when they came into contact with the Europeans. You will learn about the Arawak like never before.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good content, terrible pronunciation by reader.
- De takajej en 11-04-19
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
- A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
- De: Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A remarkable exposé & synthesis of the Ponzi scheme that capitalism is and always has been.
- De Scott en 02-10-18
De: Raj Patel, y otros
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The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Bridger Conklin
- Duración: 1 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Once valued at close to seven trillion dollars by today’s standards, the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, became the world’s first multinational corporation. In the nearly 200-year reign of their empire at sea, the Dutch East India Company amassed unfathomable fortunes, laid the foundation of the modern globalized world, and built monopolies that controlled the economy of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the East Indies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely awesome book.
- De Aleks en 10-18-18
De: Hourly History
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Trekonomics
- The Economics of Star Trek
- De: Manu Saadia
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 840
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 754
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 746
What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's imprint PiperText, approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward - through thinking about a universe where scarcity does not exist. Delving deep into the details and intricacies of 24th-century society, Trekonomics explores post-scarcity and whether we, as humans, are equipped for it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Amusing & Practical Analysis of Fictional Ideas
- De Lost In The Wash en 09-19-16
De: Manu Saadia
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The Boundless Sea
- A Human History of the Oceans
- De: David Abulafia
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 41 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, David Abulafia's new book guides listeners along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian - which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and, of course, people across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Like Reading a Dictionary.
- De aaron en 01-10-21
De: David Abulafia
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How the West Won
- The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 470
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 467
Modernity developed only in the West - in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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We all have a bias
- De Adam Shields en 04-21-15
De: Rodney Stark
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
- De: David S. Landes
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 21 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes' acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A detailed explanation
- De Kaarlis en 12-07-21
De: David S. Landes
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The Journey of Humanity
- The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
- De: Oded Galor
- Narrado por: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Why are humans the only species to have escaped—only very recently—the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so unequally around the world, resulting in the great disparities between nations that exist today? Galor’s gripping narrative explains how technology, population size, and adaptation led to a stunning “phase change” in the human story a mere two hundred years ago.
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4 out of 5 stars
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promoting innovation and industrial disease
- De Anonymous User en 01-18-24
De: Oded Galor
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Millennium
- From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed over a Thousand Years
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
In Millennium, best-selling historian Ian Mortimer takes the listener on a whirlwind tour of the last 10 centuries of Western history. It is a journey into a past vividly brought to life and bursting with ideas, that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which century saw the greatest change. We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burned to the ground by invaders - and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer - to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilizations came into conflict.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad ending - literally
- De John Gordon en 12-14-16
De: Ian Mortimer
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Inhuman Bondage
- The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
- De: David Brion Davis
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 303
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
In Inhuman Bondage, David Brion Davis sums up a lifetime of insight. He looks at slavery in the American South; the rise of the Cotton Kingdom; the daily life of slaves; the destructive internal long-distance slave trade; the sexual exploitation of slaves; the emergence of an African-American culture; and much more. A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Useful Contribution
- De Biggar Thomas en 06-14-08