UID:
almafu_9959242061102883
Format:
1 online resource (279 p.)
ISBN:
1-4422-3140-8
Series Statement:
World Social Change
Content:
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in the influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944 and based on his previously unavailable dissertation, now available in book form for the first time. Williams's profound critique became the fou
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Contents; Introduction; P A R T I. THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE; Ch01. The Impolicy of the Slave System; Ch02. The Superiority of the French West Indies; Ch03. East India Sugar; Ch04. The Attempt to Secure an International Abolition; Ch05. The West Indian Expeditions; Ch06. The Significance of the West Indian Expeditions; Ch07. The Abolition of the Slave Trade; P A R T I I. THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; Ch08. The Abolitionists and Emancipation; Ch09. The Foreign Slave Trade; Ch10. East India Sugar; Ch11. The Distressed Areas
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Ch12. The Industrialists and EmancipationEpilogue; Appendix One: The "Influential Men"; Appendix Two: Ramsay as an Authority; Appendix Three: Select Documents Illustratingthe Inter-Colonial Slave Trade; Bibliography; Index; About the authors
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4422-3139-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
