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The plantation machine : Atlantic capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica /

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and officials to become...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Burnard, Trevor G. (Trevor Graeme) (Autor), Garrigus, John D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:Early modern Americas.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CHAPTER 1 A Comparative History of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue
  • CHAPTER 2 The Plantation World
  • CHAPTER 3 Urban Life
  • CHAPTER 4 The Seven Years' War in the West Indies
  • CHAPTER 5 Dangerous Internal Enemies
  • CHAPTER 6 Racial Reconfigurations Before the American Revolution
  • CHAPTER 7 The Golden Age of the Plantocracy
  • CHAPTER 8 The American Revolution in the Greater Antilles
  • CHAPTER 9 Recovery and Consolidation in the 1780s
  • CHAPTER 10 The Ancien Régime in the Greater Antilles.