Building the Atlantic empires
Subtitle: unfree labor and imperial states in the political economy of capitalism, ca. 1500-1914
By: [edited] by John Donoghue, Evelyn P. Jennings
Series: Studies in global social history -- volume 20
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9789004285194
Subjects: Economic development; Forced labor; Capitalism; Imperialism; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Colonies; History
Description: "Building the Atlantic Empires explores the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor and capitalist and imperial development. In contrast to much imperial and labor history, this collection of essays shows Western European states as an agent of capitalist expansion. Extending the prolific literature on racial slavery, these essays help transcend imperial, colonial, geographic, and historiographic boundaries through comparative insights into multiple forms and ideologies of unfree labor as they evolved over the course of four centuries in the Dutch, French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese empires. The book raises new questions for scholars seeking connections between the history of servitude and slavery and the ways in which capitalism and imperialism transformed the Atlantic world and beyond. Contributors are: Pepijn Brandon, Rafael Chambouleyron, James Coltrain, John Donoghue, Karwan Fatah-Black, Elizabeth Heath, Evelyn P. Jennings, and Anna Suranyi"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sinews of Spain's American empire : forced labor in Cuba from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Evelyn F. Jennings; title: Indian freedom and Indian slavery in the Portuguese Amazon (1640-1755) / Rafael Chambouleyron; title: Constructing the Atlantic's boundaries : forced and coerced labor on imperial fortifications in colonial Florida / James Coltrain; title: For the reputation and respectability of the staten : trade, the imperial state, unfree labor, and empire in the Dutch Atlantic / Pepijn Brandon and Karwan Fatah-Black; title: The unfree origins of English empire-building in the seventeenth century Atlantic / John Donoghue; title: Indenture, transportation, and spiriting : seventeenth century English penal policy and "superfluous" populations / Anna Suranyi; title: Citizens of the empire? : indentured labor, global capitalism and the limits of French republicanism in colonial Guadeloupe / Elizabeth Heath.