The making of New World slavery : from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800
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Published
London ; Verso, 2010.
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
306.362 BLACK 2010
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306.362 BLACK 2010
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Published
London ; Verso, 2010.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
v, 602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: 1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought -- successfully -- to feed upon this commerce and -- unsuccessfully -- to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this history, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of the individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West." -- Publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Blackburn, R. (2010). The making of New World slavery: from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 . Verso.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Blackburn, Robin. 2010. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800. Verso.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 Verso, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 Verso, 2010.
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