The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (Verso World History) - Softcover

Blackburn, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844676315 ISBN 13: 9781844676316

Verlag: Verso Books, 2010

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Book by Blackburn Robin

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A magnificent work of contemporary scholarship.A" Eric Foner, The Nation Sombre, dark and masterly.A" Linda Colley, Independent on Sunday An exhaustive, powerfully written and compelling book.A" Anthony Pagden, Times Literary Supplement

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Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch. "The Making of New World Slavery" argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought - successfully - to feed upon this commerce and - unsuccessfully - to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this history, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of the individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844676315
• ISBN 13: 9781844676316
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 608