The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his 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 histori…
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Weitere Autoren: Tomich, Dale W. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4422-3140-5
- EAN: 9781442231405
- Produktnummer: 22972843
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'549 KB
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Eric Williams was the most prominent intellectual from the English-speaking Caribbean in the twentieth century. He was a leader of West Indian independence and the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1955 to 1981. Dale W. Tomich is professor emeritus of sociology and history at Binghamton University, State University of New York. William Darity Jr. is Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University.
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