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Econocide : British Slavery in the Era of Abolition /
In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's mobilization against the slave...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2010]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Econocide : |b British Slavery in the Era of Abolition / |c Seymour Drescher ; with a new preface by the author and a new foreword by David Brion Davis. |
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| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2017 | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 The Decline Theory of Abolition; 2 The 1770s as the Pivot of British Slavery; 3 The Protected Economy Before the French Slave Revolution; 4 The Unprotected Economy Before the French Slave Revolution; 5 The Growth of Slavery in the Era of British Supremacy; 6 The New Frontier and Abolition; 7 Economic Conjuncture and Abolition Bills, 1791-1806; 8 The Market Mechanism and Abolition; 9 Abolition and the Decline of British Slavery, 1808-1814; 10 Beyond Economic Interest; List of Abbreviations. | |
| 520 | |a In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London to commit what Drescher terms "econocide." This action, he argues, was detrimental to Britain's economic interests at a time when British slavery was actually at the height of its potential. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Slavery. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01120426 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Slave trade. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01120405 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Antislavery movements. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00810800 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z Europe |z Great Britain. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Slavery. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Esclaves |x Commerce |z Antilles britanniques |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Esclaves |x Commerce |z Grande-Bretagne |x Histoire. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slave trade |z West Indies, British |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slave trade |z Great Britain |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slavery |z West Indies, British |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Antislavery movements |z Great Britain |x History. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a West Indies |z British West Indies. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01243266 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Great Britain. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
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