It is beyond dispute that slavery has always been abhorrent and, wherever it still exists, should be abolished. Where most scholarly writing on slavery in the past has concentrated on examining slaves as victims, recent writings have taken a more nuanced view of slavery in focusing on the slaves themselves and their cultural and psychological accomplishments in captivity. Also, studies of the system's profitability have shown that, from an economic perspective, slavery worked for the slaveholders and their society.
In Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom, the distinguished scholar Stanley...
It is beyond dispute that slavery has always been abhorrent and, wherever it still exists, should be abolished. Where most scholarly writing on sla...
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. "The Atlantic Slave Trade" brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them. Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost to Africa of this forced migration; the role of slavery in the economic development of Europe and the United States; the short-term and...
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. "The Atlantic Slave...
This collection offers the only single-volume treatment in English of the Lesser Antilles from the time of Columbus to the abolition of slavery. The essays show how the Lesser Antilles emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries as among the most densely populated and advanced economic zones in the world and how they served as stepping-stones for the expansion of the slave-based plantation system in the Americas.
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This collection offers the only single-volume treatment in English of the Lesser Antilles from the time of Columbus to the abolition of slavery. Th...
Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery with detailed analyses of specific areas. This book looks at the conditions of slave life and the transition to freedom.
Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery wi...
Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery with detailed analyses of specific areas. This book looks at markets and production.
Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery wi...
The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues related to the nature of land regimes and to their economic and political implications.
The studies drawn together in this key volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times. They illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment...
The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control an...
Modern scholarship on the relationship between British capitalism and Caribbean slavery has been profoundly influenced by Eric Williams's 1944 classic, Capitalism and Slavery. The present volume represents the proceedings of a conference on Caribbean Slavery and British Capitalism convened in his honour in 1984, and includes essays on Dr Williams's scholarly work and influence. These essays, by thirteen scholars from the United States, England, Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, explore the relationship between Great Britain and her plantation slave colonies in the Caribbean.
Modern scholarship on the relationship between British capitalism and Caribbean slavery has been profoundly influenced by Eric Williams's 1944 classic...
In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened. Rather than there simply being more disease, breast cancer has entered the bodies of so many American women and the concerns of nearly all the rest, mostly as a result of how we have detected, labeled, and responded to the disease. The book traces changing definitions and understandings of breast cancer, the experience of breast cancer sufferers,...
In the early nineteenth century in the United States, cancer in the breast was a rare disease. Now it seems that breast cancer is everywhere. Written ...
