UID:
almafu_9960119775202883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-52389-0
Content:
The inclusion of the New World in the international economy, among the most important events in modern history, was based on slavery. Europeans brought at least eight million black men, women and children out of Africa to the Western Hemisphere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, and slavery transformed the Atlantic into a complex trading area. This trade united North and South America, Europe, and Africa through the movement of peoples, goods and services, credit and capital. The essays in this book place slavery in the mainstream of modern history. They describe the transfer of slavery from the Old World, its role in forging the interdependence of the economies bordering the Atlantic, its effect on the empires of Portugal, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain, and its impact on Africa.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Slavery and colonization / Barbara L. Solow -- The Old World background of slavery in the Americas / William D. Phillips, Jr. -- Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492-1713 / Franklin W. Knight -- The Dutch and the making of the second Atlantic system / P.C. Emmer -- Precolonial western Africa and the Atlantic economy / David Eltis -- A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system : the Portuguese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century / Joseph C. Miller -- The apprenticeship of colonization / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens / P.K. O'Brien and S.L. Engerman -- The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution / Patrick Villiers -- Slavery, trade, and economic growth in eighteenth-century New England / David Richardson -- Economic aspects of the growth of slavery in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / David W. Galenson -- Credit in the slave trade and plantation economies / Jacob M. Price.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-45737-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-40090-2
Language:
English
