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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Caribbean slavery in the Atlantic world. Kingston, [Jamaica] : Ian Randle ; Oxford : James Currey ; Princeton : Marcus Weiner, 2000 (OCoLC)606119517 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hilary Beckles; Verene Shepherd |
ISBN: | 1558761853 9768123613 9789768123619 9781558761858 0852557671 9780852557679 |
OCLC Number: | 42454379 |
Notes: | "This is a revised and expanded edition of the work previously published as Caribbean slave society and economy"--Title page verso. |
Description: | xix, 1120 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Atlantic slavery project -- Indigenous peoples: conquest, resistance and representation -- Imperialism and colonial slavery -- Servitude, slavery and new economic orders -- Slavery, finance and trade -- Work culture of the enslaved -- Slavery and capitalist globalization -- Race, class, colour and the power order -- Sex, race and the gender order -- Subaltern autonomy: social and economic culture -- Deadly business: mortality, health, nutrition and the crisis of social reproduction -- Rejecting slavery: blacks speak back -- Caribbean wars: marronage and rebellion -- Haitian revolution -- Rebel womeN;anti-slavery feminist vanguard -- Capitalism ideology and emancipation processes. |
Other Titles: | Caribbean slave society and economy. |
Responsibility: | [edited by] Verene A. Shepherd, Hilary McD. Beckles. |
Abstract:
A completely revised and expanded version of Caribbean Slave Society and Economy which has become a standard text in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. This new volume is made up of 17 sections comprising more than 70 articles. Each of the 17 sections has a short introduction which provide the context for the general theme and for the essays which follow.
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