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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peterson, Derek R., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2010.
©2010
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson
  • African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton
  • And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton
  • Empire without America : British plans for Africa in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. Brown
  • Ending the slave trade : a Caribbean and Atlantic context / Philip D. Morgan
  • Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher
  • Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law
  • Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.