LEADER 03522nam 22005775 450 001 9910164955303321 005 20230626232624.0 010 $a0-226-67925-X 010 $a9780226079356 010 $a9780226411774 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226411774 035 $a(CKB)3710000001063985 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4805183 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001741141 035 $a(DE-B1597)523692 035 $a(OCoLC)972734357 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226411774 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001063985 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCul de Sac $ePatrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue /$fPaul Cheney 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Colonial Cul de Sac --$t1. Province and Colony --$t2. Production and Investment --$t3. Humanity and Interest --$t4. War and Profit --$t5. Husband and Wife --$t6. Revolution and Cultivation --$t7. Evacuation and Indemnity --$tEpilogue --$tAcknowledgments --$tSources and Abbreviations --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, Cul de Sac ultimately reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end. 606 $aSugar plantations$zHaiti$zCul-de-Sac Plain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aCapitalism$zHaiti$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPlantation owners$zHaiti 606 $aPlantation overseers$zHaiti 607 $aHaiti$xEconomic conditions$y18th century 607 $aHaiti$xHistory$yTo 1791 607 $aHaiti$xHistory$yRevolution, 1791-1804 615 0$aSugar plantations$xHistory 615 0$aCapitalism$xHistory 615 0$aPlantation owners 615 0$aPlantation overseers 676 $a338.1/736109729452 700 $aCheney$b Paul$0887066 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164955303321 996 $aCul de Sac$91980917 997 $aUNINA