Specters of the Atlantic : Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History /

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Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baucom, Ian, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Zong (Ship)
Zong (Navire)
Kapitalisme.
Processen (rechtspraak)
Slavenhandel.
Spekulation > Wirtschaft
Sklavenhandel
Abolitionismus
Trials.
Slave trade.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Antislavery movements.
Abolitionists.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Capitalisme > Aspect social > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Proces > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Abolitionnistes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Amerique > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Capitalism > Social aspects > History > 18th century.
Trials > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Abolitionists > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > America > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > Africa > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Atlantischer Raum
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
America.
Africa.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time
  • Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century
  • "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern
  • "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation
  • "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event
  • "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative
  • Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness
  • Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception
  • The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity"
  • The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness
  • The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment
  • "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering
  • And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism
  • This/such, for instance : the witness against "history"
  • "The sea is history"
  • "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.

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