Format:
1 online resource (206 pages)
ISBN:
9781442231405
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 foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that has set the tone for an entire field. The significant differences between his two works allows us to reconsider questions that have lost none of their urgency; indeed, whose importance has increased.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- THE ECONOMIC ASPECT of the ABOLITION of the WEST INDIAN SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVERY by Eric Williams, B.A. -- Introduction -- Part I: The Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Chapter 1: The Impolicy of the Slave System -- Chapter 2: The Superiority of the French West Indies -- Chapter 3: East India Sugar -- Chapter 4: The Attempt to Secure an International Abolition -- Chapter 5: The West Indian Expeditions -- Chapter 6: The Significance of the West Indian Expeditions -- Chapter 7: The Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Part II: The Abolition of Slavery -- Chapter 8: The Abolitionists and Emancipation -- Chapter 9: The Foreign Slave Trade -- Chapter 10: East India Sugar -- Chapter 11: The Distressed Areas -- Chapter 12: The Industrialists and Emancipation -- Epilogue -- Appendix One: The "Influential Men" -- Appendix Two: Ramsay as an Authority -- Appendix Three: Select Documents Illustrating the Inter-Colonial Slave Trade -- Bibliography -- About the Authors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442231399
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442231399
Language:
English
