Format:
1 Online-Ressource (527 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9781438459172
Series Statement:
SUNY Series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science
Content:
Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the First Edition: Sugar, Slavery, and Capitalism -- Introduction to the Second Edition: The Capitalist World-Economy as a Small Island -- Chapter 1 Sugar and Slavery in an Age of Global Transformation, 1791-1848 -- The Destruction of a Sugar Empire -- The Emergence of British Hegemony and the Reintegration of the World Sugar Market, 1815-1848 -- Chapter 2 The Contradictions of Protectionism: Colonial Policy and the French Sugar Market, 1804-1848
Content:
Reconstruction of the French Colonial Empire -- From Exclusif Mitigé to Pacte Colonial, 1814-1826 -- The Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Beet Sugar Versus Cane Sugar, 1826-1848 -- Chapter 3 The Local Face of World Process -- Land, Labor, and Sugar: The Expansion of Monoculture -- Anatomy of a Sugar Island -- The Limits of Agricultural Expansion -- Credit, Debt, and Crisis -- Inalienable Property -- Merchants and Planters -- Chapter 4 Sugar and Slavery: Forces and Relations of Production -- The Social Requirements of Sugar Production -- The Cooperative Force of Slave Labor
Content:
Chapter 5 The Habitation Sucrière: Cell Unit of Colonial Production -- The Cultivation of Sugar Cane -- The Mill -- The Refinery -- Making Sugar -- Chapter 6 Obstacles to Innovation -- Sugar, Slavery, and Modern Science -- The Usine Centrale: A Blocked Transition -- Chapter 7 A Calculated and Calculating System: The Dialectic of Slave Labor -- The Hands and Feet of the Planter -- Rhythms of Work: Economy of Time -- Domination, Hierarchy, and Labor Discipline -- Integration, Autonomy, and Resistance -- Chapter 8 The Other Face of Slave Labor: Provision Grounds and Internal Marketing
Content:
Slavery and Subsistence -- The Self-Appropriation of the Appropriated -- The Fruits of Their Labor -- Conclusion: The Global in the Local: World-Economy, Sugar, and the Crisis of Plantation Slavery in Martinique -- Appendix 1 Estimated Volume of the Slave Trade to Martinique, 1814-1831 -- Appendix 2 Slave Prices by Age and Occupation, 1825-1839 -- Period 1: 1825-1829 -- Period 2: 1830-1834 -- Period 3: 1835-1839 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Official Publications -- Books, Pamphlets, and Articles -- Selected Secondary Sources -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438459189
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438459172
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tomich, Dale W Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition : Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 Albany, NY : State University of New York Press,c2016 ISBN 9781438459172
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