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Trouble of the World : Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital /

"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global scale, showing how slavery molded th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sell, Zach (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the United States as an empire-state while other imperial powers looked to it as a model for their own colonial projects"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781469660479