|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910785333903321 |
|
|
Autore |
Drescher Seymour |
|
|
Titolo |
Econocide [[electronic resource] ] : British slavery in the era of abolition / / Seymour Drescher ; with a new preface by the author ; and a new foreword by David Brion Davis |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-4696-0432-9 |
0-8078-9959-3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (312 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Altri autori (Persone) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
301.44/93/0941 |
301.44930941 |
326.80941 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Antislavery movements - Great Britain |
Slavery - West Indies, British |
Slave trade - Great Britain |
Slave trade - West Indies, British |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 The Decline Theory of Abolition; 2 The 1770's as the Pivot of British Slavery; 3 The Protected Economy Before the French Slave Revolution; 4 The Unprotected Economy Before the French Slave Revolution; 5 The Growth of Slavery in the Era of British Supremacy; 6 The New Frontier and Abolition; 7 Economic Conjuncture and Abolition Bills, 1791-1806; 8 The Market Mechanism and Abolition; 9 Abolition and the Decline of British Slavery, 1808-1814; 10 Beyond Economic Interest; List of Abbreviations |
Appendix I. Chronology Appendix II. Estimating the Sugar, Coffee, and Slave Trades; Appendix III. The Relative Strength of Suggested Motives in the Votes of 1806-1807; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition |
|
|
|
|
|