Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 307 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195093461
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9780195093469
Content:
After creating a complex system of slavery, in the late 18th century the British Empire became the first to divest itself of slavery. Seymour Drescher explores the history of the debate over slavery and free labor within Britain, and the contributions made by those who were instrumental in the formation of social sciences
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index
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Contents; Introduction; 1. Modern Slavery and Modern Freedom; 2. The Free Labor Ideology: Adam Smith; 3. From Production to Reproduction: The Population Principle; 4. Adam Smith's Epigone and the Retreat from the Free Labor Ideology; 5. Heredity, Environment, and Change; 6. Sierra Leone and Haiti: Emancipation as an Experimental Science; 7. Experimental Alternatives to Slavery, 1791-1833; 8. The Mighty Experiment; 9. Expanding the Experiment; 10. The Experiment Eroded; 11. The Experiment in Crisis: Sugar, Slaves, and Cotton; 12. An Experiment Abandoned; 13. Some Lessons; Notes
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Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195093469
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Mighty Experiment : Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation
Language:
English
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