Author: Lowell Joseph RagatzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Indies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833
Author: Lowell Joseph RagatzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Indies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833
Author: Lowell Joseph RagatzPublisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN:
Category : West Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833
Author: Lowell Joseph RagatzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Fall of the Planter Clas in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833; a Study in Social Economic History
Author: Lowell J. (Lowell Joseph) RagatzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Indies, British
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Decline of the British West Indies, 1763-1833
Author: Lowell Joseph RagatzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Econocide
Author: Seymour DrescherPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London to commit what Drescher terms "econocide." This action, he argues, was detrimental to Britain's economic interests at a time when British slavery was actually at the height of its potential. Originally published in 1977, Drescher's work was instrumental in undermining the economic determinist interpretation of abolitionism that had dominated historical discourse for decades following World War II. For this second edition, which includes a foreword by David Brion Davis, Drescher has written a new preface, reflecting on the historiography of the British slave trade since this book's original publication.
Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic
Author: Derek R. PetersonPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821443054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a variety of actors—slaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working-class radicals, British evangelicals, African political entrepreneurs—played a part. The Atlantic was an echo chamber, in which abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated from a variety of vantage points. These essays highlight the range of political and moral projects in which the advocates of abolitionism were engaged, and in so doing it joins together geographies that are normally studied in isolation. Where empires are often understood to involve the government of one people over another, Abolitionism and Imperialism shows that British values were formed, debated, and remade in the space of empire. Africans were not simply objects of British liberals’ benevolence. They played an active role in shaping, and extending, the values that Britain now regards as part of its national character. This book is therefore a contribution to the larger scholarship about the nature of modern empires. Contributors: Christopher Leslie Brown, Seymour Drescher, Jonathon Glassman, Boyd Hilton, Robin Law, Phillip D. Morgan, Derek R. Peterson, John K. Thornton
Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World
Author: John McCuskerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134703392
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. Topics treated range from early attempts in medieval England to measure the carrying capacity of ships, through the advent in Renaissance Italy and England of business newspapers that reported on the traffic of ships, cargoes and market prices, to the state of the economy of France over the two hundred years before the French Revolution and of the British West Indies between 1760 and 1790. Included is the story of Thomas Irving who challenged and thwarted the likes of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery
Author: Barbara Lewis SolowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533201
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The proceedings of a conference on Caribbean slavery and British capitalism are recorded in this volume. Convened in 1984, the conference considered the scholarship of Eric Williams & his legacy in this field of historical research.
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
Author: Piers BrendonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307388417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.