Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic / / edited by Derek R. Peterson

• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 326/.809171241
• Soggetto topico: Slave trade - Great Britain - History; Slave trade - Great Britain - Colonies - America - History; Slave trade - Africa - History; Antislavery movements - Great Britain - History; Imperialism - Social aspects - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies History
• Persona (resp. second.): PetersonDerek R. <1971->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton -- Empire without America : British plans for Africa in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. Brown -- Ending the slave trade : a Caribbean and Atlantic context / Philip D. Morgan -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic
• ISBN: 0-8214-4305-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788374503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series