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Autore: |
Drescher Seymour
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Titolo: |
The mighty experiment : free labor versus slavery in British emancipation / / Seymour Drescher
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
�2002 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.3620941 |
326/.0942 | |
331.11720941 | |
Soggetto topico: | Antislavery movements - Great Britain |
Slavery - Economic aspects - Great Britain | |
Slaves - Emancipation - Economic aspects - Great Britain | |
Social sciences and history - Great Britain | |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2002. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; 1. Modern Slavery and Modern Freedom; 2. The Free Labor Ideology: Adam Smith; 3. From Production to Reproduction: The Population Principle; 4. Adam Smith's Epigone and the Retreat from the Free Labor Ideology; 5. Heredity, Environment, and Change; 6. Sierra Leone and Haiti: Emancipation as an Experimental Science; 7. Experimental Alternatives to Slavery, 1791-1833; 8. The Mighty Experiment; 9. Expanding the Experiment; 10. The Experiment Eroded; 11. The Experiment in Crisis: Sugar, Slaves, and Cotton; 12. An Experiment Abandoned; 13. Some Lessons; Notes |
Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This study analyses Great Britain's withdrawal from the transatlantic slave system. It argues that it was a rational social experiment and that emancipation was designed to minimise agitation on both sides of the Atlantic. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The mighty experiment ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-771464-1 |
0-19-029196-6 | |
1-280-52775-7 | |
0-19-802536-X | |
0-19-518017-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808142203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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