Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery : A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World /

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"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Tomich, Dale W., 1946- (Autor), Venegas Fornias, Carlos, 1946- (Autor), Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969- (Autor), Marquese, Rafael de Bivar, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Plantations.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Brazil > Paraibuna River Valley.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Cuba.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Mississippi River Valley.
Plantations > Brazil > Paraibuna River Valley > Pictorial works.
Plantations > Cuba > Pictorial works.
Plantations > Mississippi River Valley > Pictorial works.
Plantations > Brazil > Paraibuna River Valley > History > 19th century.
Plantations > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Plantations > Mississippi River Valley > History > 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley.
Cuba.
Brazil > Paraibuna River Valley.
Pictorial works.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraíba Valley-demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (176 pages): illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ;
ISBN:9781469663142

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