ISBN:
9781526103017
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 256 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
UCL / Neale series on British history
Series Statement:
UCL/Neale Series on British History
Parallel Title:
Print version
DDC:
306.3/620941
Keywords:
Slavery Congresses Colonies
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History
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Slaves ; Emancipation
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Slavery ; Economic aspects ; Great Britain
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Slavery ; Colonies ; Great Britain ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings
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History
Abstract:
Explores the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain
Abstract:
Cover -- Emancipation and the remaking of the British imperial world -- Contents -- List of tables -- A note on the front cover -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper and Keith McClelland -- Part I Formations of capital: beyond 'merchants and planters' -- 1 The scope of accumulation and the reach of moral perception: slavery, market revolution and Atlantic capitalism: Robin Blackburn -- 2 Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth: a contribution to the debate: Pat Hudson
Abstract:
3 Slavery and Welsh industry before and after emancipation: Chris Evans -- Part II From slavery to indenture -- 4 From slavery to indenture: scripts for slavery's endings: Anita Rupprecht -- 5 Re-examining the labour matrix in the British Caribbean 1750 to 1850: Heather Cateau -- 6 After emancipation: empires and imperial formations: Clare Anderson -- Part III The imperial state -- 7 Imperial complicity: indigenous dispossession in British history and history writing: Zoë Laidlaw -- 8 Concepts of liberty: freedom, laissez-faire and the state after Britain's abolition of slavery: Richard Huzzey1
Abstract:
Part IV Public histories, family histories -- 9 Family history: history's poor relation?: Alison Light -- 10 Writing Sugar in the Blood: Andrea Stuart -- 11 Legacy and lineage: family histories in the Caribbean: Mary Chamberlain -- Part V Reparations, restitution and the historian -- 12 The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: 'eyewash', 'storm in a teacup' or promise of a new future for Mauritians?: Vijayalakshmi Teelock -- 13 Jamaica and the debate over reparation for slavery: an overview: Verene A. Shepherd -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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