Accounting for Slavery - Masters and Management

Informationen zum Autor Caitlin Rosenthal returned to Harvard for her Ph.D. in history after three years with McKinsey & Company. A finalist for the Nevins Prize in Economic History and winner of the Krooss Prize for the Best Dissertation in Business History at Harvard University, she was a Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School and is now Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.

Product details

• Authors: Caitlin Rosenthal
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780674972094
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97209-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Political Ideologies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Economic history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Political ideologies and movements, Central Southern States, Slavery and abolition of slavery, US South, West Indies