2: Freedom, Slavery and The Rise of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- Chapter 6: Time, Scale and Understandings … of Western Civilization -- chapter 7: What is Freedom? What is Slavery? -- Chapter 8: Freedom, Democracy and … Individualism: Cause of Business Success or Mere Correlation? -- Chapter 9: Slavery and its Legacies -- Part 3: Global …

Introduction: Imagining a Confederate economy -- Shifting cultivation, slavery, and economic development … -- Agricultural reform and state activism -- Explaining Lieber's paradox : railroads, state building, and slavery -- Redefining free …

affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late 18th and early 19th … values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on anti-slavery petitions, membership … parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …