The European Experience in Slavery, 1650–1850
Author: Rebekka von Mallinckrodt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-04-11
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 3110749963
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Beyond Exceptionalism
Author: Rebekka Mallinckrodt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-08-23
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 3110748959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. This edited volume focuses on practices of enslavement taking place within German territories in the early modern period as well as on the people of African, Asian, and Native American descent caught up in them.
The European Experience in Slavery, 1600-1850
Author: Rebekka Mallinckrodt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783110749397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe European Experience in Slavery assembles experts on the repercussions of the transatlantic as well as Mediterranean slave trade in different countries of early modern Europe for the first time, demonstrating that human trafficking was indeed a pan-European phenomenon. Focusing on entanglements between slavery and other forms of dependency, this collection shows how the former was woven into the fabric of early modern European society.
The European Experience in Slavery, 1650-1850
Author: Rebekka Mallinckrodt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-08-19
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 3110749866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume documents the practice of bringing enslaved people to early modern Europe not only as a side effect of overseas colonial regimes but as a pan-European experience that even developed its own dynamics on the continent. Drawing on examples from France, Scotland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the Holy Roman Empire, the contributors show how slavery affected both the enslaved and the enslavers' societies, changing European notions of freedom, dependence, and subjugation. At the same time, Afro-European families and cultural productions challenge the view of the Black diaspora as Europe's "other." The volume thus reveals not only the roots of present-day racism extending far back into the past, but also a common heritage yet to be discovered.
Capitalism and Slavery
Author: Eric Williams
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-06-30
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1469619490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.
Africa's Discovery of Europe
Author: David Northrup
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines the full range of African-European encounters from an unfamiliar African perspective rather than from the customary European one"--Publisher description.
Working the Diaspora
Author: Frederick Knight
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0814748341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly important contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the natural world. Broad in scope, clearly written, and at the center of current scholarly debates, Working the Diaspora challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways.
State, Economy and the Great Divergence
Author: Peer Vries
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1472526406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKState, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing on early modern China and Western Europe, in particular Great Britain, this book offers a new level of detail on comparative state formation that has wide-reaching implications for European, Eurasian and global history. Beginning with an overview of the historiography, Peer Vries goes on to extend and develop the debate, critically engaging with the huge volume of literature published on the topic to date. Incorporating recent insights, he offers a compelling alternative to the claims to East-West equivalence, or Asian superiority, which have come to dominate discourse surrounding this issue. This is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
Author: Pamela Scully
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005-10-04
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0822387468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was a profoundly gendered process, produced through connections between race, gender, sexuality, and class. Contributors from the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, and Brazil explore how the processes of emancipation involved the re-creation of gender identities—the production of freedmen and freedwomen with different rights, responsibilities, and access to citizenship. Offering detailed analyses of slave emancipation in specific societies, the contributors discuss all of the diverse actors in emancipation: slaves, abolitionists, free people of color, state officials, and slave owners. Whether considering the construction of a postslavery masculine subjectivity in Jamaica, the work of two white U.S. abolitionist women with the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil War, freedwomen’s negotiations of labor rights in Puerto Rico, slave women’s contributions to the slow unraveling of slavery in French West Africa, or the ways that Brazilian abolitionists deployed representations of femininity as virtuous and moral, these essays demonstrate the gains that a gendered approach offers to understanding the complex processes of emancipation. Some chapters also explore theories and methodologies that enable a gendered reading of postslavery archives. The editors’ substantial introduction traces the reasons for and patterns of women’s and men’s different experiences of emancipation throughout the Atlantic world. Contributors. Martha Abreu, Sheena Boa, Bridget Brereton, Carol Faulkner, Roger Kittleson, Martin Klein, Melanie Newton, Diana Paton, Sue Peabody, Richard Roberts, Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva, Hannah Rosen, Pamela Scully, Mimi Sheller, Marek Steedman, Michael Zeuske
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Author: David Eltis
Publisher:
Published: 2015-02-16
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780300212549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
