Lucky Valley - Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism

"Written in 1774, Edward Long's History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies"--

List of contents

I. Growing up English: 1. A gentleman's son; 2. The young Englishman; II. The Lineaments of Racial Capitalism: 3. The plantation; 4. The merchant house; 5. Reproducing capital: the Long family; III. Making a Slave Society: 6. Colonizing geographies; 7. Colonizing the state; 8. Theorizing racial difference; Epilogue.

About the author

Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of History at University College London and a prize-winning author. Her work focuses on Britain and empire, and includes Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 (2002), Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain (2012), and Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain (co-authored with Nicholas Draper et al.; Cambridge, 2014). Between 2009 and 2015 she was the principal investigator on the ESRC/AHRC project 'Legacies of British Slave-ownership'.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Hall, Catherine (University College London) Hall, Hall Catherine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009098854
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0909885-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Jamaica, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, C 1700 To C 1800, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism