Human Resources (eBook)

Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain - in 39 Institutions, People, Places and Things

Arisa Loomba, Renay Richardson (Autoren)

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2025
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-80081-624-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Recommended by The British BlacklistOrdinary items take on new meanings when you cast them in different light. The origins of tea, coffee and sugar are well known, but when you discover that gym treadmills were pioneered on plantations or that denim jeans were once clothing for enslaved people, you can't help but ask where else the legacy of slavery hides in plain sight.Through the stories of thirty-nine everyday places and objects, Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba unpick the threads of the history that we never learned in school, revealing the truth of how Britain's present is bound to a darker past.Taking us from art galleries to football stands, banks to hospitals, from grand country houses to the backs of our kitchen cupboards, Human Resources is an eye-opening inquiry that gives a voice to the enslaved people who built modern Britain.

Autor

Renay Richardson is an award-winning producer based in London. Her work focuses on empowering audiences and creating social change.

Arisa Loomba is a PhD student of Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford, working in partnership with the National Trust.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Afropean Johny Pitts • Afua Hirsch We Need to Talk About the British Empire • akala natives • Bonnie Greer In Search of Black History • Colonialism • David Olusoga • emma dabiri • Empireland Sathnam Sanghera • Empire’s Endgame Gargi Bhattacharyya • Ijeoma Oluo • Paul Gilroy • Reni Eddo-Lodge • Rule Nostalgia A Backwards History of Britain Hannah Rose Woods • slave trade • The New Age of Empire Kehinde Andrews • Uncommon Wealth Britain and the Aftermath of Empire Kojo Koram • Wish We Knew What to Say Talking with Children About Race Dr Pragya Agarwal
• ISBN-10: 1-80081-624-3 / 1800816243
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80081-624-4 / 9781800816244