02531nam 2200637Ia 450 991081239970332120200520144314.01-281-36491-697866113649151-4039-8132-910.1057/9781403981325(CKB)1000000000342920(EBL)307701(OCoLC)123419591(SSID)ssj0000129878(PQKBManifestationID)11129121(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129878(PQKBWorkID)10080466(PQKB)10493685(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8132-5(MiAaPQ)EBC307701(Au-PeEL)EBL307701(CaPaEBR)ebr10135590(CaONFJC)MIL136491(EXLCZ)99100000000034292020040609d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContesting empires opposition, promotion, and slavery /Jonathan Hart1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (xviii, 268 pages)1-349-52819-6 1-4039-6453-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-249) and index.Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 After Spain; 3 Opposition from Within; 4 Promoting Empire; 5 Slavery to the American Revolution; 6 Slavery Since the American Revolution; 7 Conclusion; Notes; IndexBased on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion on slavery has even larger scope ranging from early Arab, African and Portuguese practices in Africa and beyond to the legal abolition of slavery in the British empire, the United States and elsewhere in the Nineteenth-century.ColoniesAmericaImperialismSlaveryEuropeTerritorial expansionColoniesImperialism.Slavery.325.7Hart Jonathan Locke1956-899056MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812399703321Contesting empires4082077UNINA