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American Mirror : The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation /

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saba, Roberto (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:America in the World ; 37
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Orthography and Currency
  • Introduction
  • Part I. A New World Unchained
  • Introduction
  • 1 Distant Slave Empires
  • 2 The Enemy of My Enemy
  • 3 A Hemispheric Battle
  • Part II. The World That Free Labor Made
  • Introduction
  • 4 Into the Coffee Kingdom
  • 5 Brave New World
  • 6 The Triumph of Free Labor
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Archival Collections Consulted
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE