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Slavery, family, and gentry capitalism in the British Atlantic : the world of the Lascelles,1648-1834 /

A study of the formation of the British Atlantic World from the perspective of Yorkshire aristocratic families who invested in the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s. S.D. Smith offers a case study of the plantation-owning Lascelles and the networks they created with their ass...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, S. D. (Simon David), 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2006.
Colección:Cambridge studies in economic history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Remembering and Forgetting; 2 Halls and Vassalls; 3 Rise of the Lascelles; 4 Lascelles and Maxwell; 5 The Gedney Clarkes; 6 Merchants and Planters; 7 A Labyrinth of Debt; 8 Managing a West India Interest; 9 The Enslaved Population; 10 Between Black and White; 11 Epilogue; Archival Sources; Index.