The absentee slave-owner: representations and identities -- The debate over compensation -- The distribution of slave-compensation -- The structure of slave-ownership -- The large-scale rentier-owners -- 'Widows and orphans': small-scale British slave-owners -- Merchants, bankers and agents in...

"Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the...