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British capitalism and Caribbean slavery : the legacy of Eric Williams / [edited by] Barbara L. Solow, Stanley L. Engerman.

Contributor(s): Series: Studies in interdisciplinary history | Studies in interdisciplinary historyPublication details: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.Description: x, 345 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521334780
  • 9780521334785
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306/.362/09729 19
LOC classification:
  • HT1092 .B75 1987
NLM classification:
  • 700=AACR2
Online resources:
Contents:
British capitalism and Caribbean slavery : the legacy of Eric Williams : an introduction / Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman -- Race and slavery : considerations on the Williams thesis / William A. Green -- Capitalism and slavery in the exceedingly long run / Barbara L. Solow -- Slavery and the development of industrial capitalism in England / Joseph E. Inikori -- The slave trade, sugar, and British economic growth, 1748-1776 / David Richardson -- The American Revolution and the British West Indies' economy / Selwyn H.H. Carrington -- "Dreadful idlers" in the cane fields : the slave labor pattern on a Jamaican sugar estate, 1762-1831 / Richard S. Dunn -- Paradigms tossed : capitalism and the political sources of abolition / Seymour Drescher.
Capitalism, abolitionism, and hegemony / David Brion Davis -- Eric Williams and abolition : the birth of a new orthodoxy / Howard Temperley -- What and who to whom and what : the significance of slave resistance / Michael Craton -- Capitalism and slavery on the Islands : a lesson from the mainland / Gavin Wright -- "The Williams effect" : Eric Williams's Capitalism and slavery and the growth of West Indian political economy / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Eric Williams and Capitalism and slavery : a biographical and historiographical essay / Richard B. Sheridan.
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Summary: A study of the relationship between Great Britain and plantation slave colonies in the Caribbean, representing the proceedings of a conference on Caribbean Slavery and British Capitalism convened in 1984 in honour of Eric Williams, author of the 1944 classic "Capitalism and Slavery".
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Papers originally presented at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center at Bellagio, Italy, May 21-25, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references.

British capitalism and Caribbean slavery : the legacy of Eric Williams : an introduction / Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman -- Race and slavery : considerations on the Williams thesis / William A. Green -- Capitalism and slavery in the exceedingly long run / Barbara L. Solow -- Slavery and the development of industrial capitalism in England / Joseph E. Inikori -- The slave trade, sugar, and British economic growth, 1748-1776 / David Richardson -- The American Revolution and the British West Indies' economy / Selwyn H.H. Carrington -- "Dreadful idlers" in the cane fields : the slave labor pattern on a Jamaican sugar estate, 1762-1831 / Richard S. Dunn -- Paradigms tossed : capitalism and the political sources of abolition / Seymour Drescher.

Capitalism, abolitionism, and hegemony / David Brion Davis -- Eric Williams and abolition : the birth of a new orthodoxy / Howard Temperley -- What and who to whom and what : the significance of slave resistance / Michael Craton -- Capitalism and slavery on the Islands : a lesson from the mainland / Gavin Wright -- "The Williams effect" : Eric Williams's Capitalism and slavery and the growth of West Indian political economy / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Eric Williams and Capitalism and slavery : a biographical and historiographical essay / Richard B. Sheridan.

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A study of the relationship between Great Britain and plantation slave colonies in the Caribbean, representing the proceedings of a conference on Caribbean Slavery and British Capitalism convened in 1984 in honour of Eric Williams, author of the 1944 classic "Capitalism and Slavery".

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