Abolition

ISBN-13: 9780521600859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 484 str.

Seymour Drescher

Opis

This book examines the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.

Recenzje

'Seymour Drescher has given us the most comprehensive account to date of the rise and fall of modern slavery … The book is the fruit of a lifetime's work by a scholar whose interests have ranged over the entire field of slave studies. It is unlikely that we will see another study of this scope and calibre for a long time.' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Part I. Extension: 1. A perennial institution; 2. Expanding slavery; 3. Extension and tension; 4. Border skirmishes; Part II. Crisis: 5. Age of American revolution 1770s–1820s; 6. Franco-American revolutions 1780s–1820s; 7. Latin American revolutions 1810s–1820s; 8. Abolitionism without revolution: Great Britain 1770s–1820s; Part III. Contraction: 9. British emancipation; 10. From colonial emancipation to global abolition; 11. The end of slavery: Anglo-America; 12. Abolishing New World slavery: Latin America; 13. Constructing Old World slavery: 1870s–1920s; Part IV. Reversion: 14. Inversion in Europe; 15. Afterword.