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Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery : a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world /

"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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Tomich, Dale W., 1946- (Autor), Marquese, Rafael de Bivar, 1972- (Autor), Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969- (Autor), Venegas Fornias, Carlos, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Map, Table, and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Slave Plantations
  • PART I. Making Landscapes: New Atlantic Commodity Frontiers
  • 1. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Frontier
  • 2. The Cuban Sugar Frontier
  • 3. The Brazilian Coffee Frontier
  • PART II. Spatial Economies and Plantation Landscapes
  • 4. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Plantation
  • 5. The Cuban Ingenio
  • 6. The Brazilian Coffee Fazenda
  • CONCLUSION. Geometries of Exploitation
  • Notes