Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and - Slaver

Eric Williams's influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, first published in 1944, was based on his previously unavailable dissertation, now in book form for the first time. The significant differences between his two seminal works allow us to reconsider questions whose importance has only increased in our current charged climate.

Sommario

Preface
Dale Tomich

Introduction: From the Dissertation to Capitalism and Slavery: Did Williams's Abolition Thesis Change?
William Darity Jr.

The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery
Eric Williams
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1: The Impolicy of the Slave System
Chapter 2: The Superiority of the French West Indies
Chapter 3: East India Sugar
Chapter 4: The Attempt to Secure an International Abolition
Chapter 5: The West Indian Expeditions
Chapter 6: The Significance of the West Indian Expeditions
Chapter 7: The Abolition of the Slave Trade
Part II
Chapter 8: The Abolitionists and Emancipation
Chapter 9: The Foreign Slave Trade
Chapter 10: East India Sugar
Chapter 11: The Distressed Areas
Chapter 12: The Industrialists and Emancipation
Epilogue
Appendix I: "The Influential Men"
Appendix II: Ramsay as an Authority
Appendix III: The Intercolonial Slave Trade
Bibliography

Info autore

Eric Williams was the most prominent intellectual from the English-speaking Caribbean in the twentieth century. He was a leader of West Indian independence and the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1955 to 1981.Dale W. Tomich is professor emeritus of sociology and history at Binghamton University, State University of New York.William Darity Jr. is Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Eric Williams
• Con la collaborazione di: Dale W. Tomich (Editore), Tomich Dale W. (Editore), William Darity (Introduzione), William Darity Jr. (Introduzione)
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.02.2014
• EAN: 9781442231399
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3139-9
• Pagine: 278
• Serie: World Social Change; World Social Change
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Caribbean islands, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Caribbean studies;Latin American studies