The mighty experiment [[electronic resource] ] : free labor versus slavery in British emancipation / / Seymour Drescher
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| Autore: |
Drescher Seymour
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| Titolo: |
The mighty experiment [[electronic resource] ] : free labor versus slavery in British emancipation / / Seymour Drescher
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Politics and government 18th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 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: | After creating a complex system of slavery, in the late 18th century the British Empire became the first to divest itself of slavery. Seymour Drescher explores the history of the debate over slavery and free labor within Britain, and the contributions made by those who were instrumental in the formation of social sciences. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The mighty experiment |
| ISBN: | 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.: | 9910451248403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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