Extent:
viii, 406 Seiten
Series:
Type of publication: Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories): Konferenzschrift ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors
Language: English
Notes:
“'Slavery’s Capitalism' conference, sponsored jointly by Brown University and Harvard University" - Seite 5
Introduction. Slavery's capitalism / Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
Part 1. Plantation technologies. Toward a political economy of slave labor : hands, whipping-machines, and modern power / Edward E. Baptist
Slavery's scientific management : masters and managers / Caitlin Rosenthal
An international harvest : the second slavery, the Virginia-Brazil connection, and the development of the McCormick reaper / Daniel B. Rood
Part 2. Slavery and finance. Neighbor-to-neighbor capitalism : local credit networks and the mortgaging of slaves / Bonnie Martin
The contours of cotton capitalism : speculation, slavery, and economic panic in Mississippi, 1832-1841 / Joshua D. Rothman
"Broad is de road dat leads ter death" : human capital and enslaved mortality / Daina Ramey Berry
August Belmont and the world the slaves made / Kathryn Boodry
Part 3. Networks of interest and the North. "What have we to do with slavery?" New Englanders and the slave economies of the West Indies / Eric Kimball
"No country but their counting-houses" : the U.S.-Cuba-Baltic circuit, 1809-1812 / Stephen Chambers
The coastwise slave trade and a mercantile community of interest / Calvin Schermerhorn
Part 4. National institutions and natural boundaries. War and priests : Catholic colleges and slavery in the Age of Revolution / Craig Steven Wilder
Capitalism, slavery, and the new epoch : Mathew Carey's 1819 / Andrew Shankman
The market, utility, and slavery in Southern legal thought / Alfred L. Brophy
Why did Northerners oppose the expansion of slavery? Economic development and education in the limestone South / John Majewski.
ISBN: 978-0-8122-4841-8
Classification: USA ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Source:
ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013533760