Calculation and Morality: The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles

ISBN-13: 9780190856854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Caroline Oudin-Bastide; Philippe Steiner

Recenzje

An engrossing book that allows us to trace the economic element and its interaction with humanitarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth century French colonial slavery question." -Oeconomia

O autorze

Caroline Oudin-Bastide is a socio-historian of slavery in the French West Indies. Her research is focused on the social functioning of slave society and the role of social beliefs concerning witchcraft. Philippe Steiner is professor of sociology at the university Paris-Sorbonne. His recent research is devoted to the economic sociology of markets, the relation between markets and morals and the history of social sciences. He is currently working on the economic sociology of festivities.