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Slavery's capitalism : a new history of American economic development

Title
Slavery's capitalism : a new history of American economic development / edited by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman.
Publication
  • Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Beckert, Sven
  • Rockman, Seth
Description
viii, 406 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
Series Statement
Early American studies
Uniform Title
Early American studies.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
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.
Call Number
Sc E 16-1502
ISBN
  • 0812248414
  • 9780812248418
OCLC
945028802
Title
Slavery's capitalism : a new history of American economic development / edited by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman.
Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Early American studies
Early American studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
Text in English.
Chronological Term
To 1865
Added Author
Beckert, Sven, editor.
Rockman, Seth, editor.
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-1502
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