Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 272 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Rood, Daniel Reinvention of Atlantic slavery
DDC:
306.3/6209729
Keywords:
Plantations Economic aspects
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History
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Plantations Economic aspects
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History
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Technology Economic aspects
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History
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Technology Economic aspects
;
History
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Slavery History 19th century
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Slavery History 19th century
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Slavery Economic aspects
;
History
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Slavery Economic aspects
;
History
Abstract:
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery explores how, in an age of industry and abolition, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil expanded slavery by collaborating with a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other ""plantation experts"" to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit ""tropical"" needs
Abstract:
Atlantic inversions -- A Creole industrial revolution in the Cuban sugar mill -- El principio sacarino: purity, equilibrium, and whiteness in the sugar mill -- From an infrastructure of fees to an infrastructure of flows: the warehouse revolution in Havana harbor -- Wrought-iron politics: racial knowledge in the making of a greater Caribbean railroad industry -- Sweetness and debasement: flour and coffee in the Richmond-Rio circuit -- A tropics of bread: entangled technologies and the greater Caribbean origins of the US flour industry -- An international harvest: the development of the McCormick Reaper -- Futures of racial capitalism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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