Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor and Imperial States in the Political Economy of Capitalism, CA. 1500-1914

Exploring the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor, capitalism's expansion, and imperial development, Building the Atlantic Empires raises new questions about how the history of servitude and slavery transformed the Atlantic world and beyond.

About the author

John Donoghue, Ph.D. (2006), University of Pittsburgh, is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. He published his first monograph 'Fire under the Ashes' An Atlantic History of the English Revolution with the University of Chicago Press in 2013.

Evelyn P. Jennings is Professor and Margaret Vilas Chair of Latin American History at St. Lawrence University specializing in the Spanish Caribbean. She has published essays in William and Mary Quarterly, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and edited collections.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2015
• EAN: 9789004285194
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28519-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 461 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries