ISBN:
1469663147
,
9781469663142
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tomich, Dale W., 1946- Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery
DDC:
306.3/49
Keywords:
Plantations History 19th century
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Plantations History 19th century
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Plantations History 19th century
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Plantations Pictorial works
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Plantations Pictorial works
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Plantations Pictorial works
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Slavery Economic aspects
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Slavery Economic aspects
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Slavery Economic aspects
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Slavery ; Economic aspects
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Plantations
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HISTORY / Latin America / General
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Pictorial works
;
History
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Mississippi River Valley
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Cuba
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Brazil ; Paraibuna River Valley
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Map, Table, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Slave Plantations -- PART I. Making Landscapes: New Atlantic Commodity Frontiers -- 1. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Frontier -- 2. The Cuban Sugar Frontier -- 3. The Brazilian Coffee Frontier -- PART II. Spatial Economies and Plantation Landscapes -- 4. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Plantation -- 5. The Cuban Ingenio -- 6. The Brazilian Coffee Fazenda -- CONCLUSION. Geometries of Exploitation -- Notes
Abstract:
"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraíba Valley-demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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