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Migrants, Servants and Slaves: Unfree Labor in Colonial British America
ISBN: 9780860788386 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Written by one of the leading economic historians of British America, the essays in Migrants, servants, and slaves (several of which have achieved the status of minor classics) address a series of topics of central importance to the field. The central theme is that of the transition from a labor force dominated by English indentured servants, to one composed largely of African slaves. In the enquiry the author examines the changing composition of the servant population in the British North American colonies, the determinants of the pace and volume of servant migration, and the opportunities...
Written by one of the leading economic historians of British America, the essays in Migrants, servants, and slaves (several of which have achieved the...
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Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados
ISBN: 9780813937144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Intending at first simply to do further research on the mid-seventeenth-century -sugar revolution- in Barbados, Russell Menard traveled to the island. But once there, he quickly found many discrepancies between the historical understanding of the way in which this -revolution- fueled the institution of slavery and the actual, quotidian, records documenting the prominence of slavery on the island even before sugar spurred its economic growth. In Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados, Menard reveals that black slaveryis emergence in Barbados... Intending at first simply to do further research on the mid-seventeenth-century -sugar revolution- in Barbados, Russell Menard traveled to the isla... |
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The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
ISBN: 9780807843512 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 537 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature and extent of that success are still unfolding. In this first comprehensive assessment of where research on prerevolutionary economy stands, what it seeks to achieve, and how it might best proceed, the authors discuss those areas in which traditional work remains to be done and address new possibilities for a 'new economic history.'
By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The...
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368,80 zł |