Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history /

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Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baucom, Ian, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Zong (Ship)
Zong (Navire)
1700-1799
Slave trade > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > Africa > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > America > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Abolitionists > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Trials > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Capitalism > Social aspects > History > 18th century.
Esclaves > Commerce > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Amérique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Abolitionnistes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Procès > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Capitalisme > Aspect social > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Capitalism > Social aspects
Slave trade
Trials
Abolitionismus
Sklavenhandel
Spekulation > Wirtschaft
Slavenhandel.
Processen (rechtspraak)
Kapitalisme.
Africa
America
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Atlantischer Raum
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time
  • Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century
  • "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern
  • "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation
  • "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event
  • "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative
  • Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness
  • Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception
  • The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity"
  • The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness
  • The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment
  • "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering
  • And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism
  • This/such, for instance : the witness against "history"
  • "The sea is history"
  • "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.

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