Slavery's capitalism : a new history of American economic development /
Slavery's Capitalism explores the role of slavery in the development of the U.S. economy during the first decades of the nineteenth century. It tells the history of slavery as a story of national, even global, economic importance and investigates the role of enslaved Americans in the building o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Slavery's capitalism / Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
- Part 1. Plantation technologies. Toward a political economy of slave labor : hands, whipping-machines, and modern power / Edward E. Baptist
- Slavery's scientific management : masters and managers / Caitlin Rosenthal
- An international harvest : the second slavery, the Virginia-Brazil connection, and the development of the McCormick reaper / Daniel B. Rood
- Part 2. Slavery and finance. Neighbor-to-neighbor capitalism : local credit networks and the mortgaging of slaves / Bonnie Martin
- The contours of cotton capitalism : speculation, slavery, and economic panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841 / Joshua D. Rothman
- "Broad is de road dat leads ter death" : human capital and enslaved mortality / Daina Ramey Berry
- August Belmont and the world the slaves made / Kathryn Boodry
- Part 3. Networks of interest and the North. "What have we to do with slavery?" New Englanders and the slave economies of the West Indies / Eric Kimball
- "No country but their counting-houses" : the U.S.-Cuba-Baltic circuit, 1809-1812 / Stephen Chambers
- The coastwise slave trade and a mercantile community of interest / Calvin Schermerhorn
- Part 4. National institutions and natural boundaries. War and priests : Catholic colleges and slavery in the Age of Revolution / Craig Steven Wilder
- Capitalism, slavery, and the new epoch : Mathew Carey's 1819 / Andrew Shankman
- The market, utility, and slavery in Southern legal thought / Alfred L. Brophy
- Why did Northerners oppose the expansion of slavery? Economic development and education in the limestone South / John Majewski.