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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
August 2, 2010
Pages
602
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
2
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781844676323
ISBN-10
1844676323
Availability§
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Original list price
$95.00
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state soughtâsuccessfullyâto feed upon this commerce andâwith markedly less successâto regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of individual states.
Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.
The Verso World History Series: This series provides attractive new editions of classic works of history, making landmark texts available to a new generation of readers. Covering a timespan stretching from Ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth century, and with a global geographical range, the series will also include thematic volumes providing insights into such topics as the spread of print cultures and the history of money.
Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.
The Verso World History Series: This series provides attractive new editions of classic works of history, making landmark texts available to a new generation of readers. Covering a timespan stretching from Ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth century, and with a global geographical range, the series will also include thematic volumes providing insights into such topics as the spread of print cultures and the history of money.
Editions
Hardcover
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2 edition from Verso Books (August 2, 2010); titled "The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800"
9781844676323 | details & prices | 602 pages | List price $95.00
About: The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery.
About: The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery.
from Verso Books (February 1, 1997)
9781859848906 | details & prices | 602 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.80 lbs | List price $65.00
Paperback
from Verso Books (August 2, 2010)
9781844676316 | details & prices | 602 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 2.00 in. | 2.08 lbs | List price $29.95
from Verso Books (May 1, 1998)
9781859841952 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 2.50 lbs | List price $35.00
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