Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment
Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history. Here one of the most eminent scholars of modern social theory applies this assertion to a comparative study of most Caribbean islands from the time of the American Revolution to the Spanish American War. Arthur Stinchcombe uses insights from his own much admired Economic Sociology to show why sugar planters needed the help of repressive governments for recruiting disciplined labor. Demonstrating that island-to-island variations on th…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4008-2200-3
- EAN: 9781400822003
- Produktnummer: 17512151
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
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Arthur L. Stinchcombe
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