In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in...
When Niccolo Bray returned to claim his earldom near the wild Welsh marches, there were sullen faces and whispers about his lordship — more Italian than English because of his rearing at a luxurious ducal court in fifteen-century...