The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean
Daniel B. Rood
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Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 33 hts. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTM; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows how, at a moment of crisis after the Age of Revolutions, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil forged a new set of relationships with one another to sidestep the financial dominance of Great Britain and the northeastern United States. They hired a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other plantation experts to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit tropical needs and maintain profitability. These experts depended on the know-how of slaves alongside whom they worked. Bondspeople with industrial ... Read more
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows how, at a moment of crisis after the Age of Revolutions, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil forged a new set of relationships with one another to sidestep the financial dominance of Great Britain and the northeastern United States. They hired a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other plantation experts to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit tropical needs and maintain profitability. These experts depended on the know-how of slaves alongside whom they worked. Bondspeople with industrial ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190655266
SKU
V9780190655266
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About Daniel B. Rood
Daniel B. Rood is assistant professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the coeditor of Global Scientific Practice in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850.
Reviews for The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean
Rood's work reorients scholarly perspectives on the transformation of Atlantic economies in the mid-nineteenth century and the centrality of slavery in this transformation. His rare combination of deep attention to the management decisions of slaveholders and merchants and the labor of enslaved people is laudable and draws together disparate veins of historical research and argument. This book will be of ... Read more