Cargando…
The mighty experiment : free labor versus slavery in British emancipation /
By the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Great Britain had amassed Europe's largest imperial stake in the transatlantic slave system. During the next three generations the British dismantled that stake in a graduated series of withdrawals. This process has been portrayed, on the one hand...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000Ma 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | EBOOKCENTRAL_ocn252594750 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20240329122006.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr zn||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 010611s2002 nyu ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 040 | |a MT4IT |b eng |e pn |c MT4IT |d OCLCQ |d N$T |d YDXCP |d N$T |d E7B |d OCLCQ |d QE2 |d IDEBK |d CN5CF |d GPM |d OCLCQ |d OCLCF |d OCLCQ |d MERUC |d EBLCP |d OCLCQ |d AZK |d LOA |d AGLDB |d MOR |d PIFAG |d OTZ |d ZCU |d OCLCQ |d U3W |d STF |d WRM |d VNS |d OCLCQ |d VTS |d CEF |d NRAMU |d ICG |d AU@ |d LHU |d FVL |d OCLCQ |d YOU |d TKN |d COCUF |d G3B |d DKC |d OCLCQ |d K6U |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCA |d OCL |d YDX |d OCLCO |d OCLCL | ||
| 019 | |a 71777619 |a 455968245 |a 466431062 |a 476014030 |a 646787693 |a 744543277 |a 755653936 |a 764507754 |a 814458875 |a 819511411 |a 821692954 |a 961488414 |a 962569015 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780198025368 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 019802536X |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 1280527757 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781280527753 | ||
| 020 | |z 0195093461 |q (Cloth) | ||
| 020 | |z 9780195093469 | ||
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBBG |b BV043140444 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBBG |b BV044121080 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBSZ |b 422407860 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a GBVCP |b 802656021 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a NZ1 |b 13858841 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a YDXCP |b 2472708 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000066772228 | |
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)252594750 |z (OCoLC)71777619 |z (OCoLC)455968245 |z (OCoLC)466431062 |z (OCoLC)476014030 |z (OCoLC)646787693 |z (OCoLC)744543277 |z (OCoLC)755653936 |z (OCoLC)764507754 |z (OCoLC)814458875 |z (OCoLC)819511411 |z (OCoLC)821692954 |z (OCoLC)961488414 |z (OCoLC)962569015 | ||
| 043 | |a e-uk--- | ||
| 050 | 4 | |a HT1163 |b .D76 2002eb | |
| 055 | 1 | 3 | |a HT1163 |b .D76 2002eb |
| 072 | 7 | |a SOC |x 054000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 072 | 7 | |a HBCR |2 bicssc | |
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 326/.0942 |2 21 |
| 049 | |a UAMI | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Drescher, Seymour. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The mighty experiment : |b free labor versus slavery in British emancipation / |c Seymour Drescher. |
| 260 | |a Oxford ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2002. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (vi, 307 pages) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 520 | |a By the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Great Britain had amassed Europe's largest imperial stake in the transatlantic slave system. During the next three generations the British dismantled that stake in a graduated series of withdrawals. This process has been portrayed, on the one hand, as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system by the world's greatest and most dynamic economic power. On the other hand, it has been assessed as the world's most expensive per capita overseas investment in modern history. In this latter perspective, British anti-slavery was the the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. For those who actually planned, debated, implemented, and adjusted to the process, ending British slavery was best conceived neither as a timely withdrawal from a failed economy nor an unprecedented national sacrifice. Properly done, it was to be a rational social experiment. Emancipation was designed to simultaneously minimize agitation on both sides of the Atlantic, and to maximize the scientifically proven superiority of free over slave labor.; It would thereby not only benefit planters, consumers, and capitalists within the empire, but also accelerate the peaceful and voluntary surrender of millions of chattels throughout the world. The implementation and evaluation of emancipation turned out to be a far more contentious affair than the originators had anticipated. It absorbed minds of a whole generation of parliamentarians, governments, and journalists. The origin, execution, and public assessment of this great experiment, in its own contemporary terms, is the subject of this study. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Contents; Introduction; 1. Modern Slavery and Modern Freedom; 2. The Free Labor Ideology: Adam Smith; 3. From Production to Reproduction: The Population Principle; 4. Adam Smith's Epigone and the Retreat from the Free Labor Ideology; 5. Heredity, Environment, and Change; 6. Sierra Leone and Haiti: Emancipation as an Experimental Science; 7. Experimental Alternatives to Slavery, 1791-1833; 8. The Mighty Experiment; 9. Expanding the Experiment; 10. The Experiment Eroded; 11. The Experiment in Crisis: Sugar, Slaves, and Cotton; 12. An Experiment Abandoned; 13. Some Lessons; Notes. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. | |
| 590 | |a ProQuest Ebook Central |b Ebook Central Academic Complete | ||
| 590 | |a eBooks on EBSCOhost |b EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Antislavery movements |z Great Britain. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slavery |x Economic aspects |z Great Britain. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Enslaved persons |x Emancipation |x Economic aspects |z Great Britain. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social sciences and history |z Great Britain. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Esclaves |x Affranchissement |x Aspect économique |z Grande-Bretagne. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Sciences sociales et histoire |z Grande-Bretagne. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Slavery. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Antislavery movements |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Slavery |x Economic aspects |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Enslaved persons |x Emancipation |x Economic aspects |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Social sciences and history |2 fast | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Great Britain |2 fast |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP | |
| 758 | |i has work: |a The mighty experiment (Work) |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCXpxtBpjVHM47QbDJH3vpP |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork | ||
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Drescher, Seymour. |t Mighty experiment. |d Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 |w (DLC) 2001036288 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://ebookcentral.uam.elogim.com/lib/uam-ebooks/detail.action?docID=273047 |z Texto completo |
| 938 | |a YBP Library Services |b YANK |n 20446055 | ||
| 938 | |a EBL - Ebook Library |b EBLB |n EBL2012804 | ||
| 938 | |a EBL - Ebook Library |b EBLB |n EBL273047 | ||
| 938 | |a ebrary |b EBRY |n ebr10269160 | ||
| 938 | |a EBSCOhost |b EBSC |n 92730 | ||
| 938 | |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection |b IDEB |n 52775 | ||
| 938 | |a YBP Library Services |b YANK |n 2935348 | ||
| 938 | |a YBP Library Services |b YANK |n 2472708 | ||
| 994 | |a 92 |b IZTAP | ||